Foreword
David SebastiaoFebruary 19, 1942.On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed executiveorder 9066. This order was used to declare that military personnel were allowed tomake it so all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacificcoast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington, and some of New Mexico (Wikipedia). Japanese Americans were still in the west coast, but ininterment camps. Also called War Relocation Camps (Wikipedia), the camps wereused so that America would be safe from any potentially harmful Japanese Americansin the midst of War World II. The only reason this event occurred was because the Japanese bombed thePearl Harbor Naval Base on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. At risk of any other attackwithin the contiguous United States or for Japanese Americans to help the Japanesewith any other scheme they wanted to pull off, President Franklin Delano Rooseveltsigned executive order 9066.Many Japanese came to America in the early 1900’s and started a family.But, their dream of the American dream was crushed when executive order 9066 wassigned. Japanese Americans who lived on the west coast were forced to leave theirhomes and go to assembly centers and then internment camps by General John L.Dewitt However, Japanese Americans living beyond the “exclusion zone” in the westcoast could stay put where they were, and this was only because few lived outside of the west coast.Here is a timeline displaying various events that occurred after executiveorder 9066 was signed.
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March 2, 1942: General John L. DeWitt issued Public Proclamation No.1, informing all those of Japanese ancestry that they would, at some laterpoint, be subject to exclusion orders from "Military Area No. 1" (the exclusionzone), and requiring anyone who had Japanese ancestry or “enemy” ancestryto file a Change of Residence Notice if they planned to move. A secondexclusion zone was designated several months later, which included the areaschosen by most of the Japanese Americans who had managed to leave thefirst zone. (Wikipedia)
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March 11, 1942: Executive Order 9095 created the Office of the Alien PropertyCustodian, and gave it discretionary, plenary authority over all alien propertyinterests. Many assets were frozen, creating immediate financial difficulty forthe affected aliens, preventing most from moving out of the exclusion zones.(Wikipedia)
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