WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Signed on February 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066 was a presidential executive order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, giving power to the Secretary of War to maintain areas as military internment camps to isolate Japanese Americans who may have been a risk to the safety of the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -Eighty years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, stripping people of Japanese descent of their civil rights.

Detailed explanation-3: -While Roosevelt’s Order 9066 and Star Wars’ Order 66 had different mandates, the two orders similarly targeted innocent people who were labeled as traitors given their affiliation to a specific group of people; given the similarities, the executive order is, therefore, likely to be the inspiration for the name.

Detailed explanation-4: -After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9022, creating the War Relocation Authority (WRA). The WRA selected ten sites in which to imprison more than 110, 000 persons of Japanese ancestry, over two-thirds of whom were American citizens.

Detailed explanation-5: -In Dwight Okita’s “In Response to Executive Order 9066, ‘’ the narrator addresses an inevitable by-product of war – racism.

Detailed explanation-6: -What was the impact of President Roosevelt’s approval of Executive Order 9066? More than 100, 000 Japanese Americans were ordered to leave their homes and move to internment camps.