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5. Who determined that the military authorities had the power to segregate all citizens of Japanese descent from the West Coast?

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The court-civilian exclusion order #29
Most of them got put in concentration camps and some of the young men joined the army . Answer . They weren't concentration camps, but Internment camps
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The decision was determined in Executive Order 9066 issued and signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942.

This order authorized the Secretary of War to prescribe certain military areas as military zones, which resulted in eviction of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Their fell under the suspicion of espionage, their asserts frozen, and they were forcibly put into internment camps.

Approximately 122,000 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry were evicted, many of them American born citizens.

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