Public Proclamation No-21

Going into his ninth year and third term as president of the United States, doing something the longest term for a president ever, Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president during the Great Depression and during the Second World War. Only a couple months of after the vicious attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, FDR signed into Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, an order that allowed the Secretary of War the right to clear certain areas in the country as military zones and interning Japanese Americans, German Americans, and Italian Americans to several concentration camps across the country. It was not until January 2, 1945 that Public Proclamation No. 21 would be put into order, which was an order put together by General Henry C. Pratt that would allow all evacuees from the West Coast to be able to return to their homes …show more content…
This created controversy over how long these prisoners had to stay in the camps and if FDR made the right decision by issuing EO 9066. I believe that it was FDR’s personal responsibility, his job as the Commander and Chief of the Army and Navy, to issue the order to try and keep our country safe. In the beginning 1942, there was a lot of pressure put on to the United States government by its citizens about what the consequences that they Japanese would face after the brutal attack on the naval base of Pearl Harbor. FDR, his appointed members of the Cabinet, the vice president, and many other governmental figures, met together to try and come up with the best course of action for how the nation should respond to this incident and came up with Executive Order 9066, making it legal to put Japanese, German, Italian or a mix of one of those