The internment of Japanese Americans during WWII
- A
Was overturned by Congress within weeks of Pearl Harbor (mostly via emergency legislation), and FDR personally apologized for the brief detentions
- Bcheck_circle
Forcibly relocated about 120,000 Japanese Americans (mostly U.S. citizens) to camps; later acknowledged as a grave injustice
- C
Was wildly popular among Japanese Americans (mostly Issei farmers) and was endorsed by the Supreme Court as a model wartime civil-rights protection
- D
Affected only a few hundred suspected spies (almost all first-generation immigrants); later praised by historians as a careful, narrow security measure
Explanation
Korematsu v. United States (1944) upheld it; the Civil Liberties Act (1988) granted reparations.