More than two million foreign-born Germans and Italians were living in the United States during World War II, but only around fourteen thousand were detained during the war. So why were all the Issei and Nisei living on the West Coast considered a threat and incarcerated? A massive amount of anti-Japanese propaganda was created and distributed in the United States during the war, increasing fear of the Japanese and Japanese Americans and igniting anger. It even came from high up in the military.