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The Japanese Relocation order: Executive Order 9066 Japanese Americans, both first generation of Japanese in the U.S. and second generation of Japanese in America who were U.S. citizens by birthright, were evacuated from their homes after the empire of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, which was said to be “a day we will live in infamy”. On February 19, 1942, the order was authorized by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who felt pressure from Lobbyists from western states who represented competing economic interests or nativist groups, and was acted upon on March 21, 1942. In the next six months 122,000 men, women, and children were moved to the relocation centers by the U.S. Army because the Department of Justice representatives raised constitutional and ethical objections to this case. All Japanese-Americans who lived in California, Oregon and Washington were evacuated to relocation centers in the west except for Arkansas; Heart Mountain in Wyoming, Tule Lake and Manzanar in California, Topaz in Utah, Poston and Gila River in Arizona, Granada in Colorado, Minidoka in Idaho, and Jerome and Rowher Arkansas.
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