Times of war call for acts to better the nation's internal defenses, as FDR does in his Executive Order No. 9066. He begins by stating that a successful war will require the utmost attention to the defenses of America. He then expands the powers of the military; he gives the Secretary of War the ability to ban any citizen within certain areas and have them sent to assembly areas for closer observation. This order was mainly geared towards Japanese-Americans; the country as a whole was wary of anyone of Japanese descent following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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