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Because of the war with the Axis powers that included Japan and Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were treated with fear and suspicion.

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On March 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066.

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The government forced more than 110,000 Japanese Americans along the West Coast into internment camps during the war.

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One third of the Japanese Americans were born in Japan, but in select states none of them could own land, become American citizens, or vote. In 1943, Japanese-Americans were included in the military draft instead of being listed as enemy aliens, as they were before. The government also took more than 8800 volunteers from camps to serve. Fred Korematsu challenged Executive Order 9066 and the other laws against Japanese Americans, as he said they violated Japnese Americans' rights. His case went to Supreme Court, but the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the govornment. They claimed that “military necessity overruled those civil rights”. Executive Order 9066 was finally rescinded on Janueary 2, 1945, and Japanese Americans returned home from the internment camps.The government apologized and gave each former internee $20,000.