The Executive Order 9066 is a presidential order that was signed and issued by President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. It allowed areas to be cleared as military zones and also the deportation of Japanese Americans.
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It was because of the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor and the U.S. was paranoid of Japanese spies
The American Government feared that the Japanese might have been committing espionage during WWII
By FDR, it was a "witch-hunt" because of the Japanese bombing of pearl harbor (December 7, 1941).
This happened after Pearl harbor, this was the Japanese movement into camps that were guarded by American soldiers
Franklin Roosevelt signed this order in 1942.
The constitutionality of Executive Order 9066 was upheld because the provisions of other orders that required individuals of Japanese ancestry to report to assembly centers and providing for the detention of such persons in assembly and relocation centers were separate.
policies based on racist ideas.
It allowed areas to be cleared as military zones and also the deportation of Japanese Americans
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