Modern Era · North America · Politics
1942
Japanese internment in America
February 19, 1942
Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the military to exclude any persons from designated areas. Over the next months a hundred and twenty thousand Japanese Americans, two-thirds of them citizens, were sent to internment camps in the interior. Decades later the government would apologize. It was one of the darkest acts of the American war.
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- Wannsee Conference plans the Holocaust · Europe · Politics
- Stalingrad begins · Europe · War
- Midway turns the Pacific war · Oceania · War
- Bataan Death March · Southeast Asia · War
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