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=**President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his effect of the Internment of Japanese Americans in the United States.**=

**Executive Order 9066**
"TORA TORA TORA!!!!!!!!!!" The exact words that Hideki Tojo. He gave the orders for the Japanese raid of the U.S. air base on the west coast. Pearl Harbor, home of almost all of the United States west coast fleet, was soon to be on the bottom of the ocean. On the morning of December 7th, 1941 hundreds of Japanese bombers took off from different carriers with the same mission. Desolate the United States fleet. A perfect plan, and nobody expected it. Franklin Roosevelt had received many threats in past days, especially 12 hours before the attack. He thought all of them preposterous. But when Pearl Harbor was in flames, he knew the big mistake that he made. The government was on the verge of going up in flames, and they needed a guinea pig to blame it on.

The Nikkei and Isikkei, or the 120,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. Nobody knew what to do, so the people turned to Franklin Delano Roosevelt to solve the problem. Under pressure from the government and from the American people, he knew he needed to do something. And what he did is proof that even the best presidents make big mistakes. Executive order 9066 was proposed. The first picture up above. This order stated that ALL PEOPLE OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY LIVING ON THE WEST COAST NEED TO EVACUATE THEIR HOMES IMMEDIATELY.

This order would change America and it did when FDR signed the document. Second from the top. As you can see, he was very pressured by his fellow politicians to intern innocent Americans. We all know that FDR would not have done that if there wasn't something significant altering his decision. One name, on one document changed the history of the United States for ever. Through World War Two, FDR had many other things to worry about other than the Japanese interned. Naturally he paid almost no attention to them, and very few people did. As the war went on and the conditions in the camps became almost unbearable, people started realizing what was going on. Originally, the people thought it was a war necessity to intern those with Japanese ancestry. But they soon realized that FDR and his assistants made a grave mistake. They realized that it was because of pure racial hatred that 120,000 innocent and loyal Japanese Americans were interned.

In 1944, FDR finally chose to act on his mistake. He took back executive order 9066 and ordered the "return to normalcy" for all the Japanese interned in the camps. Although it wasn't a complete return to normalcy, it was a step. The Japanese still did not have their valuable homes and belongings they lost during the evacuation. There was a small bounty of 2,500 dollars given to the surviving internees, and there were a few other amounts of money given along the way. But none of this would have happened if FDR had not signed that important document that February so long ago. American history itself wouldn't be the same. [|www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html] I also used a book called __Children of Topaz [|Franklin Delano Roosevelt]__