This caused America to enter the war because at the time the U.S. was not participating Japan was later accused of committing a war crime in the Tokyo Trials. Toward the end of World War 2 America was still upset over this occurrence, therefore their response to this attack was “Executive Order 9066”. Executive Order 9066 was placed “Ten weeks after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of any or all people from military areas “as deemed necessary or desirable.” The military in turn defined the entire West Coast, home to the majority of Americans of Japanese ancestry or citizenship, as a military area” (www.history.com). All of this meant that the entire Japanese population would be round up into Nazi like concentration camps for the Jews now for “Japs” an insulting, disgusting word to call someone who is Japanese. In the camps people were just waiting, waiting for a sign or hope, some people though they were going to be executed. “People in camps seemed like animals when they were hanging on the fences” (Conrat, Pg.
This caused America to enter the war because at the time the U.S. was not participating Japan was later accused of committing a war crime in the Tokyo Trials. Toward the end of World War 2 America was still upset over this occurrence, therefore their response to this attack was “Executive Order 9066”. Executive Order 9066 was placed “Ten weeks after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of any or all people from military areas “as deemed necessary or desirable.” The military in turn defined the entire West Coast, home to the majority of Americans of Japanese ancestry or citizenship, as a military area” (www.history.com). All of this meant that the entire Japanese population would be round up into Nazi like concentration camps for the Jews now for “Japs” an insulting, disgusting word to call someone who is Japanese. In the camps people were just waiting, waiting for a sign or hope, some people though they were going to be executed. “People in camps seemed like animals when they were hanging on the fences” (Conrat, Pg.