Executive Order 906 Research Paper

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The Executive Order 9066 was an order from the president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was signed on February 19, 1942 by the president Franklin D. Roosevelt. This order made the Japanese be put into Internment Camps; “Just over two months after the United States entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the relocation of people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast into internment camps for the duration of the war” (Roosevelt, 1942, p. 112). They thought that these Japanese Americans are untrustworthy because of what happened at Pearl Harbor. This order gave the US military the power to evacuate the Japanese from the west coast and relocate them in the internment