Internment of Japanese Americans
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internment-of-japanese-americans-188-4285960
title:
Internment of Japanese Americans
text:
During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country. Approximately two-thirds of the detainees were United States citizens. These actions were initiated by Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, following Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Guam, the Philippines,
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
World War II mass incarceration in the US
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
date created:
2002-03-31T11:06:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T18:51:49Z
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