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Roosevelt Choice of creating the executive order made a huge negative impact to the japanese race to the point where they lost their homes and businesses. They lost it all. Putting a specific race aside for being biased is wrong. Its unacceptable. Noone should ever go through this situation but as sad as it is we are going through it now. Roosevelt, one our our prior presidents did this cruel act to our Japanese people. This act doesn’t justify him in any way. This act made our internees lose their homes, lands and business. They lost hope. Just like this is going on now with our former president. Setting an example that is making everyone in our community against one another. Specific races being deported, not being allowed to come into our country, being put aside because of an act one of their race committed, …show more content…

Honestly i don’t understand this war to war hate/crime. I know it’s bound to happen. However, U.S did retaliate back to Japan. The used two atomic bombs that destroyed 2 whole cities! That wasn’t enough punish though. Roosevelt sent out an executive order stating that anybody that had Japanese blood in them was dangerous to our community and we had to remove them from our country and put them away in internment camps. That included Japanese American citizens. That was not fair for them.

Roosevelt believed that all Japanese race was either a spy or someone that was out to destroy our country. Just like now with our current president that states that every single muslim race is a terrorist. He recently stopped the refugees from coming into our country because according to him, they are here to bomb us just like roosevelt thought anbout the japanese race. Just like Roosevelt, this doesn’t justify Trump to do the same thing. Our statistics show that white americans are the biggest threat in the U.s, and people still don’t take that under

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The narrative begins with the first two chapters focusing on assessing Roosevelt’s evolving attitude toward Japan and Japanese-Americans, during his pre-presidential years and his first two terms in office. Continuing, Robinson changes directions and focuses on the origin and implementation of the internment policy, beginning with Roosevelt’s decision to issue Executive Order 9066 in February 1942, the authorization of relocating Japanese-Americans from the West Coast into internment camps, the subsequent controversy over with Japanese-Americans deemed “loyal” to the United States, and the decision to finally close the camps in 1946. The final chapter concludes with Robinson attempting to understand how Roosevelt, whom historians have celebrated for his strong commitment to individual rights, could have supported such an unjust policy. Robinson argues Roosevelt’s “past feelings toward the Japanese-Americans must be considered to have significantly shaped his momentous decision to evacuate Japanese-Americans from their homes … whether citizens or longtime resident aliens, [Japanese-Americans] were still Japanese at the core and should be regarded as presumptuously disloyal and dangerous on racial grounds” (p. 118 -

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Today is February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066. Executive Order 9066 forces all Japanese-Americans regardless of loyalty or citizenship, to evacuate the west. In early 1942, the Roosevelt Administration was pressured to remove people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast. Roosevelt was pressured to do, this because he felt that some Japanese-Americans were plotting a sabotage against the US, following the bomb of Pearl Harbor.

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president roosevelt established that the japanese amaericans go into internment camps. he was not justified because the ones in america at the time didnt have anything to do with the bombing, on the other hand there were some japanese who acted loyal to their culture and were spies. this would be a just reason for him to have done that. the event of pearl harbor president roosevelt thought it would be a good idea to put the japanese americans in internment camps. he decided to do this because there were spies that helped japan instead of being loyal to the country they were in.

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“The truth was, at this point Papa did not know which way to turn. In the government 's eyes a free man now, he sat, like those black slaves you hear about who, when they got word of their freedom at the end of the Civil War, just did not know where else to go or what else to do and ended up back on the plantation, rooted there out of habit or lethargy or fear” (Farewell to Manzanar, ----). Papa was just one victim of injustice. After the Japanese dropped a bomb on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1947, all Japanese Americans were relocated to internment camps. President Roosevelt signed executive order 9066, ordering that all people of Japanese ethnicity because the government viewed them as a threat to national security.

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As opposed to righteous view that America was safeguarding its position in the war, the Japanese American internments were created out of resentment and racial prejudice fostered by other Americans. As the article “Personal Justice Denied” stated, the internments were led by “widespread ignorance of Japanese Americans contributed to a policy conceived in haste and executed in an atmosphere of fear and anger at Japan” (Doc E, 1983). It may seem like a precautionary cause to make internments but there aren’t any other extreme measures for other fronts. Caused by a hatred stirred by media and society’s view, many people disdain the Japanese.

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President Roosevelt justified in ordering Executive Order 9066 which resulted in the internment of Japanese American citizens. Reasons why are because he was the one the that had to approve of this, he discriminated all Japanese, it demanded war. President Roosevelt was the president at that time which meant he had control. If he didn't want to do this he wouldn't of approved of this. Everything was under him if he didn't agree he would've denied but obviously he did.

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There was profound racism against the American Japanese both from the society and some government policies. White farmers in the West Coast were highly prejudicial against their Japanese counterparts and the attack on Pearl Harbor offered them an opportunity to condemn and take away the farms owned by people of Japanese descent. Such groups instigated and fully supported the internment camps to enable them reach their objectives.(Trowbridge, 2016) After receiving contradictory advice and popular opinion, President Roosevelt signed an executive order in February 1942 authoritatively mandating the Relocation of all Americans of Japanese ancestry to what would become known as Internment Camps in the interior of the United States. Evacuation orders were posted in JAPANESE-AMERICAN communities giving instructions on how to comply with the executive order.

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How would you feel if one day you were told to leave your whole life behind to live in captivity just because people halfway across the world did something wrong? This horror story was all too true for the thousands of Japanese Americans alive during World War II. Almost overnight, thousands of proud Japanese Americans living on the west coast were forced to leave their homes and give up the life they knew. The United States government was not justified in the creation of Japanese internment camps because it stripped law-abiding American citizens of their rights out of unjustified fear.

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Jayna Marie Lorenzo May 23, 2023 Historiography Paper Professor Kevin Murphy Historiography Final: Japanese Internment “A date which will live in infamy,” announced President Roosevelt during a press conference after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Due to the military threat by the Japanese on the West Coast, on February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, ordering for the incarceration of all people of Japanese descent. The Order forced about 120,000 Japanese Americans into relocation centers across the United States where they remained in captivity until the war ended.

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The United States is a melting pot, but Japan just started to get exposed to industrialization and shouldn’t be so quick to jump to other countries that would be a culture shock all while they need to focus on themselves. Roosevelt backs this thinking up with an example in Hawaii, were the Japanese has already outnumbered the whites there and taking their jobs. There’s a very clear link between what’s happening in our world, present day 2017, and what Roosevelt is stating, just with a different race. Foreign policy is always talked about and the United States are divided in conflict with embracing the Hispanic immigrants or the

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Even before Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, Japanese Americans were discriminated against because of their race. During World War ll, the United States was also at war with Germany and Italy, but German and Italian Americans were not experiencing the same unfair treatment that Japanese Americans endured. This was because of their race. For example, in an editorial in The Crisis periodical, Harry Paxton Howard wrote in September of 1942, “Color seems to be the only possible reason why thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry are in concentration camps. Anyway, there are no Italian-American, or German-American citizens in such camps” (Document E).

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“Rooselvelt signed the war relocation authority to force 110,000 Japanese and their American born children into relocation camps.” “ They had enjoyed the rights of any U.S citizen; now their own government imposed strict curfews and raided their homes for contraband.” Due to the president giving a direct order to do all of these prejudiced things that violate everything the U.S stands for, we can tell that the government is well aware of the massive amount of issues they are bringing upon innocent Japanese Americans. They even go as far as to claim forced relocation is for the safety of Japanese Americans. While I think what the United States did was bad at the time, one admirable thing is that in more recent years, our country has taken action and made

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In my opinion, the Japanese were still trying to show that they were Americans. They were complying with people putting them into the internment camps and they burned all of their heritage. Honestly, they were not doing anything un-American, but, because of their race, they were targeted. Arresting someone based on race is not constitutional, but we still see it today.

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Thesis statement: Though many speculate that the act of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) while not doing so on Europe (Germany and Italy) was racially motivated, racism played little to no role in these bombings. The United States of America and her allies were willing to end World War II at any cost, had the atomic bombs been available they would have been deployed in Europe. In the 1940’s there is no doubt that the United States of America was engulfed by mass anti-Japanese hysteria which inevitably bled over into America’s foreign policy. During this period Japanese people living in both Japan and the United States of America were seen as less that human.

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As a result, all Japanese were discriminated in the U.S.A. as biased perceptions were already set in their minds. They were judging the Japanese as the whole, just because the attack of a small part of the

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