internment camp

Examples of internment camp in the following topics:

• Internment of Japanese Americans

  • Japanese-American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States Government in 1942 of about 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese living along the Pacific coast of the United States to camps called "War Relocation Camps."
  • This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and much of Oregon, Washington, and Arizona, except for those in internment camps.
  • While this event is most commonly called the internment of Japanese Americans, the government operated several different types of camps holding Japanese Americans.
  • German American internment and Italian American internment camps also existed, sometimes sharing facilities with the Japanese Americans.
  • The spartan facilities of the camps met international laws, but still left much to be desired.

• Civil Rights of Asian Americans

  • Internment camps during World War II were used to hold Japanese American residents and citizens, who were suspected of anti-American plotting without the benefit of legal proceedings.
  • In what is now considered to be a major civil rights violation, thousands of Japanese Americans were held in internment camps during World War II.
  • These camps were premised on the suspicion that Japanese Americans could be linked to Japanese war efforts, but in fact they held thousands of civilians without any legal grounds or evidence of criminal activity.
  • During the Second World War, Japanese Americans were forced to relocate to U.S. government administered internment camps on the baseless suspicion that they may plot anti-American activities.

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • One of the most controversial consequences of the attack was the creation of internment camps for Japanese American residents and citizens.
  • Within hours of the attack, hundreds of Japanese American leaders were rounded up and brought to high-security camps such as Sand Island at the mouth of Honolulu harbor and Kilauea Military Camp on the island of Hawaii. 
  • Over 110,000 Japanese Americans, including United States citizens, were removed from their homes and transferred to internment camps in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arkansas, and Texas.

• The Holocaust

  • Holocaust scholars draw a distinction between extermination camps and concentration camps.
  • Historian Yehuda Bauer argues that "the basic motivation [of the Holocaust] was purely ideological, rooted in an illusionary world of Nazi imagination, where an international Jewish conspiracy to control the world was opposed to a parallel Aryan quest."
  • Instead, the ghettos' inhabitants were sent to extermination camps.
  • At this time, as the Soviet armed forces approached, the camps in eastern Poland were closed down, any surviving inmates being shipped west to camps closer to Germany.
  • Local commanders continued to kill Jews, and to shuttle them from camp to camp by forced "death marches" until the last weeks of the war.

• Outdoor Recreation

  • Bicycle riding, camping, baseball, and public parks grew in prominence during the late nineteenth century.
  • The application of the internal-combustion engine to the bicycle during the 1890s resulted in the motorcycle, and then soon after, the engine was applied to 4-wheel carriages resulting in the motor car or "automobile" which in later decades largely supplanted its unmotorized ancestor.
  • Later he embarked on a cycling and camping tour with some friends across Ireland.
  • His book on his Ireland experience, Cycle and Camp in Connemara led to the formation of the first camping group in 1901, the Association of Cycle Campers, later to become the Camping and Caravanning Club.
  • By the 1960s camping had become an established family holiday standard and today camp sites are ubiquitous across Europe and North America.

• Genocide

  • The response to denial is punishment by an international tribunal or national courts"
  • These are slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp, a German Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg (Etter Mountain) near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937.
  • It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil.
  • Many prisoners had died from malnutrition when U.S. troops of the 80th Division entered the camp.
  • The photograph was taken five days after the camp's liberation.

• Catabolite Activator Protein (CAP): An Activator Regulator

  • When glucose levels decline in E. coli, catabolite activator protein (CAP) is bound by cAMP to promote transcription of the lac operon.
  • When glucose levels drop, cyclic AMP (cAMP) begins to accumulate in the cell.
  • The cAMP molecule is a signaling molecule that is involved in glucose and energy metabolism in E. coli.
  • When cAMP binds to CAP, the complex binds to the promoter region of the genes that are needed to use the alternate sugar sources .
  • As glucose supplies become limited, cAMP levels increase.

• Plasma Membrane Hormone Receptors

  • One very important second messenger is cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP).
  • Adenylyl cyclase catalyzes the conversion of ATP to cAMP. cAMP, in turn, activates a group of proteins called protein kinases, which transfer a phosphate group from ATP to a substrate molecule in a process called phosphorylation.
  • Each molecule of adenylyl cyclase then triggers the formation of many molecules of cAMP.
  • Hormone binding to receptor activates a G protein, which in turn activates adenylyl cyclase, converting ATP to cAMP. cAMP is a second messenger that mediates a cell-specific response.
  • An enzyme called phosphodiesterase breaks down cAMP, terminating the signal.

• Termination of the Signal Cascade

  • Cyclic AMP (cAMP) is degraded into AMP by phosphodiesterase, and the release of calcium stores is reversed by the Ca2+ pumps that are located in the external and internal membranes of the cell.

• The Holocaust

  • The basic motivation [of the Holocaust] was purely ideological, rooted in an illusionary world of Nazi imagination, where an international Jewish conspiracy to control the world was opposed to a parallel Aryan quest.
  • The use of extermination camps (also called "death camps") equipped with gas chambers for the systematic mass extermination of peoples was an unprecedented feature of the Holocaust.
  • Rudolf Höss, the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, said:
  • Those who were fit for work were sent into the Camp.
  • Hungarian Jews being selected by Nazis to be sent to the gas chamber at Auschwitz concentration camp.