Edexcel GCSE History · 1HI0
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- Revise: Experience and Impact of Migrants
Confinement by the government without an ordinary criminal trial, often used during wartime against people considered a security threat.
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GCSE History · key term
Detention by the state, usually in a guarded camp, without an ordinary criminal trial, on grounds such as wartime security.
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Confinement by the government without an ordinary criminal trial, often used during wartime against people considered a security threat.
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Detaining people under government authority, usually during wartime, without an ordinary criminal trial.
Revise: Minority Groups and the Civil Rights MovementInternment therefore resulted from existing prejudice as well as wartime security fears; it was not a response to proven wrongdoing by all those affected.
Detention by the state without the normal process of a criminal trial, often justified during wartime as a security measure.
Imprisonment without trial, used in Northern Ireland from August 1971 in an attempt to contain violence.
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Revise: ‘Aliens’ and refugeesThe government also restricted migrants through internment: detention in guarded camps without an ordinary criminal trial. On 7 August 1914, it decided that German men aged 17–42 should be interned for national security. The implementation varied as space in camps became available.
Explain internment through both wartime security fears and existing anti-Japanese racism. Many of those confined were US citizens, and ancestry was not evidence of disloyalty.
Support judgements about treatment with contrasting evidence: charitable rescue and military service existed alongside hostility, restrictions and internment.
When explaining security measures, consider both their intended protection and their consequences: internment in Northern Ireland increased support for republican paramilitaries.
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