Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese <\/p>\n
(1942)The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 shattered Americans\u2019 complacency and unified the nation into supporting entry into World War II, which the country had avoided during the first two years of the war. Unfortunately, at the same time the attack unified the nation to action, it also caused a massive wave of racism to sweep the country. To most Americans, it was not only the Japanese pilots sent by the Japanese Navy on the orders of the Japanese government to destroy Pearl Harbor, it was all Japanese people who were responsible for the attack. There was, by 1941, a large population of Japanese-Americans living in the United States.<\/p>\n
Many were there to escape the very government that ordered the attack, but most had been living in America for a generation or two as part of the wave of immigration into the United States during Japan\u2019s industrial transformation of the late 19th and early 20thcenturies. It seems that to most Americans and to the United Statesgovernment, all Japanese were the same, regardless of where they lived. As a result of this view, people of Japanese ancestry, the vast majority of them citizens of the United States, were rounded up and with complete loss of their rights as citizens were placed in \u201cRelocation Centers.\u201d<\/p>\n
There were no similar camps for German-Americans or Italian-Americans.Executive Order No. 9066 The President Executive Order Authorizing the Secretary of War to Prescribe Military Areas Whereas the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense material, national-defense premises, and national-defense utilities as defined in Section 4, Act of April 20, 1918, 40 Stat. 533, as amended by the Act of November 30, 1940, 54 Stat. 1220, and the Act of August 21, 1941, 55 Stat. 655 (U.S.C., Title 50, Sec. 104); Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States,and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of War, and the Military Commanders whom he may from time to time designate, whenever he or any designated Commander deems such action necessary or desirable, to prescribe military areas in such places and of such extent as he or the appropriate Military CommanderExecutive Order 9066, February 19, 1942; General Records of the Unites States Government; Record Group 11; National Ar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 shattered Americans\u2019 complacency and unified the nation into supporting entry into World War II, which the country had avoided during the first two years of the war. Unfortunately, at the same time the attack unified the nation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-105938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}