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What event caused the US to have the interment camps?​

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The attack on Pearl Harbor

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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which ordered the removal of Americans of full or partial Japanese ancestry from West Coast so-called "military areas" to inland internment camps, on February 19,1942. It was a paranoid reaction to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

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