Essay On Japanese Hysteria

War fabricates hysteria and destruction wherever it resides. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, created an internal fear throughout American’s homes. The word “American” does not only apply to those who were born and share a native heritage that connects them to the land but to also those also who have immigrated overtime to the land of the free. However, as this hysteria crept through the minds of American citizens, it quickly built a barrier against those of Japanese descent.

Subsequently, the government took action to relieve the citizens of the hysteria, in 1942. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which gave the United States military authority to remove any individual from designated areas (Ford 256). Although the word “Japanese” did not appear in the executive

They were stripped of their citizen rights and became second-hand citizens. The conditions were far from what the government portrayed to the rest of the country. The Executive Order 9066 that was issued on February 19, 1942, was for the sole purpose of prosecuting the war with the Axis Powers, but failed to cease the end of the hostilities (Ford 256). Given that there was no formal statement of its termination, there was a tremendous concern among many Americans of Japanese descent that there may yet be some life in that obsolete document. President Gerald Ford sensed the tension still between those of Japanese descent. He formally terminated the Executive Order 9066 with the Proclamation 2714 (Ford 256). The proclamation ended the long overdue apology to the Japanese Americans. The hysteria that once crept through the minds of those who were not of Japanese descent that built a barrier against Japanese Americans were finally struck down and formally