A japán - amerikaiak internálása

After the attack on Pearl Harbor President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executeive Order No 9066 on February 19, 1942 authorizing the eventual relocation and internment of the Japanese-American community in the name of military necessity. According to the government Japanese-Americans posed a national security risk that threatened the war efforts of the United States. Japanese-Americans were not considered to be loyal citizens, but rather based on collective guilt, they were the enemy within, the fifth column.