World War II - Japanese Internment Camps Quiz

Who were put into the Japanese internment camps?

• Citizens of Japan living in the United States

• Japanese-American immigrants

• American citizens of Japanese descent

• Second and third generation Japanese-Americans

• All of the above

What U.S. president ordered the Japanese to be moved to internment camps?

• Harry Truman

• George Bush

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

True or False: Families with children were allowed to stay home and were not forced to move to the camps.

• True

• False

What type of homes were families given in the camps?

• Single room tarpaper shacks

• Two bedroom wooden homes

• Brick four-bedroom homes

• They lived in caves

• They had to sleep on the ground

Around how many Japanese-Americans were forced to move to internment camps during World War II?

• 900

• 3,000

• 15,000

• 40,000

• 120,000

True or False: Germans and Italians were sent to internment camps, but not at the same scale as the Japanese.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What happened to people living in the camps when they finally got out? Select ALL that are true

• They had lost their homes

• They had lost their farms

• They had lost their property

• They had to rebuild their lives from nothing

Which of the following is true of the conditions in the camp?

• The people were violent and crime was high

• They were able to come and go as they pleased

• The children attended well-equipped schools

• They lived in large homes and ate good food

• None of the other options are correct

What did the United States do for the camp survivors in 1988?

• Apologized

• Paid each of the survivors $20,000

• The President of the United States sent each of them a letter

• All of the answers are true

• None of the answers are true

What president signed the law that gave reparations to the survivors of the camps?

• Bill Clinton

• Jimmy Carter

• John F. Kennedy

• Ronald Reagan

• Harry Truman