Franklin D Roosevelt 906 Essay

“President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared that the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941, would live in infamy” (“Japanese… War II.”). The Japanese’s killed roughly two-thousand-four-hundred people who Sunday in 1941 and President Roosevelt wanted to make sure the Japanese people knew they were well-known for their wicked act. Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States had been actively involved in the European war by supplying England and other anti-fascist countries of Europe, but now President Roosevelt and America had a new problem to deal with. This attack is what led the United States into the involvement of the Second World War. In this paper, there will be explanations and reasoning’s why Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed the 9066 executive order, what kind of strategies were used, and how it affected the Japanese-American citizens and the rest of the

This executive order authorized the removal of all people of Japanese ancestry, both citizens and aliens, inland, and outside of the Pacific military zone. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s objective of the 9066 executive order was to prevent espionage and to protect the Japanese American citizens, aliens, and United States citizens with Japanese descent from harm. The West Coast was the home to the majority of American with Japanese descent or citizenship was relocated to internment camps built by the United States military. The United States military and President Roosevelt claimed these camps were to save the lives of Japanese citizens from harm by placing them in internment camps scattered around the country, but it was because they believed the Japanese-Americans were spying on the United States government. Roosevelt strongly believed if they were not put into internment camps there would be another situation like Pearl