History of the United States II / Unit 12 USH2 1683 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Executive Order Ninety Sixty-Six
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The idea
On February nineteenth, nineteen forty-two, Roosevelt signed Executive Order ninety sixty-six, authorising military commanders to exclude civilians from military areas.
In practice
Exclusion zones that ultimately covered the whole West Coast, the Yawp records.
Where people slip
The order named no ethnic group, the National Archives notes, yet it fell on Japanese Americans, immigrants and citizens alike.
Your place on the trail
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