12/7/41 - Pearl Harbor bombed
2/19/42 - FDR signs Executive  Order 9066 setting the legal framework necessary for the military to issue Exclusion Orders and post notices like the one above in order to round up and imprison U.S. citizens of “Foreign Enemy Ancestry”, which ultimately led to the internment of 120,000 Japanese (62% actually born in the U.S.) in “War Relocation Camps”.
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12/7/41 - Pearl Harbor bombed

2/19/42 - FDR signs Executive Order 9066 setting the legal framework necessary for the military to issue Exclusion Orders and post notices like the one above in order to round up and imprison U.S. citizens of “Foreign Enemy Ancestry”, which ultimately led to the internment of 120,000 Japanese (62% actually born in the U.S.) in “War Relocation Camps”.

    • #de witt
    • #exclusion order
    • #executive order 9066
    • #internment
    • #japan
    • #pearl harbor
    • #presidio
    • #san francisco
    • #war
    • #wwii
    • #fdr
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