What is Executive Order 9066?

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What is Executive Order 9066?

• Japanese American Internment/Relocation

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Japanese internment/relocation

• Is internment the same definition as
  imprisonment?
• Internment--- forced relocation.
• Why would the U.S. force 119,000 people of
  Japanese ancestry to live in forced camps during
  the 1940s?
• Out of fear!

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Location of camps

• Why was the Japanese American population located
  primary on the west coast from states like
  California, Oregon, and Washington?

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Guantanamo Bay

• The detainees currently held as of June 2008 have
  been classified by the United States as "enemy
  combatants"
• Supreme Court ruled detainees at Guantanamo have
  a basic constitutional right of due process.

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Guantanamo Bay detainees

• reported that 6 of the detainees at the
  Guantanamo Bay facility would be tried for
  conspiracy in the September 11, 2001 attacks
• Of the 505 detainees, 100 or more are from Saudi
  Arabia, about 80 from Yemen, about 65 from
  Pakistan, about 50 from Afghanistan and two from
  Syria