https://padlet.com/20harpna/os1tpd61qdt2 Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2018-03-18 20:41:24 UTC 2025-11-24 20:24:54 UTC hello@padlet.com 20harpna https://padlet.com/20harpna/os1tpd61qdt2/wish/243252138 (Feb. 19, 1942), executive order issued by U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, which granted the secretary of war and his commanders the power “to prescribe military areas in such places and of such extent as he or the appropriate Military Commander may determine, from which any or all persons may be excluded.” While no specific group or location was mentioned in the order, it was quickly applied to virtually the entire Japanese American population on the West Coast.]]> 2018-03-18 20:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/20harpna/os1tpd61qdt2/wish/243252138 20harpna https://padlet.com/20harpna/os1tpd61qdt2/wish/243252455 In the days after the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941, suspicion fell on Japanese American communities in the western United States. The US Department of the Treasury froze the assets of all citizens and resident aliens who were born in Japan, and the Department of Justice arrested some 1,500 religious and community leaders as potentially dangerous enemy aliens. Because many of the largest populations of Japanese Americans were in close proximity to vital war assets along the Pacific coast, U.S. military commanders petitioned Secretary of War Henry Stimson to intervene. The result was Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066.]]> 2018-03-18 20:47:45 UTC https://padlet.com/20harpna/os1tpd61qdt2/wish/243252455 20harpna https://padlet.com/20harpna/os1tpd61qdt2/wish/243253387 The Order was entitled “Authorizing the Secretary of War to Prescribe Military Areas” and began with the words, “Whereas the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage.” Military Area 1 included the Western half of California, Oregon, Washington, and the southern half of Arizona. At this time, eighty percent of Japanese Americans lived in California.]]> 2018-03-18 20:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/20harpna/os1tpd61qdt2/wish/243253387 20harpna https://padlet.com/20harpna/os1tpd61qdt2/wish/243253466 The first deportations began on February 25 when the US Navy ordered all Japanese Americans to leave Terminal Island near Los Angeles within 48 hours. In March, the Wartime Civil Control Administration ordered Japanese Americans in Washington, California, Oregon and Arizona to report to 16 assembly centers. They were told to only bring what they could carry in their hands, which was usually one suitcase. The largest of these temporary detention centers held 18,000 residents and was located at the Santa Anita Race Track in Los Angeles, California, where internees were moved into horse stalls.]]> 2018-03-18 20:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/20harpna/os1tpd61qdt2/wish/243253466 20harpna https://padlet.com/20harpna/os1tpd61qdt2/wish/243254004 During World War II, Presidential Executive Order 9066 and congressional statutes gave the military authority to exclude citizens of Japanese ancestry from areas deemed critical to national defense and potentially vulnerable to espionage. Korematsu remained in San Leandro, California and violated Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34 of the U.S. Army.]]> 2018-03-18 20:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/20harpna/os1tpd61qdt2/wish/243254004 20harpna https://padlet.com/20harpna/os1tpd61qdt2/wish/243254160 The Court sided with the government and held that the need to protect against espionage outweighed Korematsu's rights. Justice Black argued that compulsory exclusion, though constitutionally suspect, is justified during circumstances of "emergency and peril."]]> 2018-03-18 20:58:47 UTC https://padlet.com/20harpna/os1tpd61qdt2/wish/243254160