Constitutional Violations during the Japanese American Incarceration | Asian Americans

Examine how the conditions of World War II increased anti-Japanese sentiment in the U.S. Two months after the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan, ushering the U.S. into World War II, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. This order forcibly incarcerated approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans. The ensuing war increased anti-Japanese sentiment, causing distrust of the large Japanese population on the West Coast of the United States. Despite the fact that many of them were U.S. citizens, Japanese Americans were suspected of being loyal to America’s wartime enemy, Japan.