The Impact of Mass Hysteria
President Franklin
D. Roosevelt
D. Roosevelt
- Once Japan attacked the United States they set off a war against them.
- The United States were in a state of fear that drove them to do wild things like the Internment Camps.
- U.S citizens feared another attack and war, hysteria seized the country.
- State representatives put pressure on President Roosevelt on taking action against Japanese who already lived in the U.S
- February 19th 1942 Roosevelt signed the Executive order 9066.
- About 120,000 people were removed.
- People were convicted of spying for japan.
- Camps were guarded by military man.
- The headlines of the New York Times sent
- chills down every reader’s back on December 8 and filled their hearts with fear of
- War,
- war had been going on in Europe,
- but Americans were promised