19 February 1942 onward
Executive order / mass incarcerationSupplement
Executive Order 9066 and Japanese American exclusion
United States, especially West Coast; people of Japanese ancestry
Roosevelt’s order enabled military exclusion zones. Subsequent orders forced Japanese Americans, including U.S. citizens, from their homes into incarceration, producing major losses of liberty and property.
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Context / qualification
The executive order did not name Japanese people in its text; its implementation targeted them on an ancestry basis.