Roosevelt Signs Internment Order
Citing concerns about wartime espionage and sabotage, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which allowed the military to begin removing all people of Japanese ancestry, including American citizens, from the West Coast. The order would lead to the internment of about 120,000 people at 10 camps scattered across seven states.
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