Executive Order 9066: Internment of Japanese Americans

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Abstract

Executive Order 9066, promulgated on February 19, 1942, was the first and most important document in a series of military and government directives in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. That order from President Franklin D. Roosevelt led directly to the incarceration of 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry residing in four western states in the spring of 1942.

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