Question

Starting in Feb. 19, 1942, by executive order of president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 125,000 people of Japanese descent were interned due to the unfunded suspicion that they would conspire against the US.

True or False

Answer 1

Answer: True

Explanation: During World War II, President Roosevelt signed an order that would see about 120,000 people of Japanese descent, who had not committed any crime, held in an internment camp.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, anti-Japanese sentiments grew and the government wanted to prevent people of Japanese descent lending any help to Japan against the U.S. for example, by spying. This was the justification for the Japanese Internment.