HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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internment camps for Japanese Americans
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the Office of War Mobilization
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nuclear test sites in Nevada
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the Office of Price Administration
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Detailed explanation-1: -In February 1942, just two months later, President Roosevelt, as commander-in-chief, issued Executive Order 9066 that resulted in the internment of Japanese Americans.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Japanese American relocation program had significant consequences. Camp residents lost some $400 million in property during their incarceration. Congress provided $38 million in reparations in 1948 and forty years later paid an additional $20, 000 to each surviving individual who had been detained in the camps.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Court ruled in a 6 to 3 decision that the federal government had the power to arrest and intern Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu under Presidential Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Detailed explanation-4: -However, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that relocation and internment was justified during circumstances of “emergency and peril". It is now widely agreed that the internment of the Japanese Americans was not justified and was based solely on racism. Japanese Americans did not pose any credible threat to the country.