Answer:
Under Executive Order 9066 the military created internment camps to segregate Japanese American citizens, confiscating their properties and sending them there, accused of being a threat to national security.
Explanation:
Executive Order 9066 was promulgated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. Its aim was to prevent spying or sabotage operations in the United States, sending Japanese Americans to internment camps on the West Coast. The decree was endorsed by the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States of 1944.
