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  2. Internment of Italian Americans - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The internment of Italian Americans refers to the US government 's internment of Italian nationals during World War II. As was customary after Italy and the US were at war, they were classified as "enemy aliens" and some were detained by the Department of Justice under the Alien and Sedition Act. But in practice, the US applied detention ...

  3. Executive Order 9066 - Wikipedia

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    A girl detained in Arkansas walks to school in 1943. Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. "This order authorized the forced removal of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast ...

  4. Enemy alien - Wikipedia

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    Legal status of persons. In customary international law, an enemy alien is any native, citizen, denizen or subject of any foreign nation or government with which a domestic nation or government is in conflict and who is liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed. Usually, the countries are in a state of declared war.

  5. Korematsu v. United States - Wikipedia

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    Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that upheld the internment of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during World War II. The decision has been widely criticized, [2] with some scholars describing it as "an odious and discredited artifact of popular ...

  6. Consequences of the attack on Pearl Harbor - Wikipedia

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    Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor took place on December 7, 1941. The United States military suffered 19 ships damaged or sunk, and 2,403 people were killed. Its most significant consequence was the entrance of the United States into World War II. The US had previously been officially neutral but subsequently entered the Pacific War, and after ...

  7. Civil Liberties Act of 1988 - Wikipedia

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    The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 100–383, title I, August 10, 1988, 102 Stat. 904, 50a U.S.C. § 1989b et seq.) is a United States federal law that granted reparations to Japanese Americans who had been wrongly interned by the United States government during World War II and to "discourage the occurrence of similar injustices and violations of civil ...

  8. Executive Order 8802 - Wikipedia

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    The preamble to the order read: [4] Whereas it is the policy of the United States to encourage full participation in the national defense program by all citizens of the United States, regardless of race, creed, color, or national origin, in the firm belief that the democratic way of life within the Nation can be defended successfully only with the help and support of all groups within its ...

  9. Italians in the United States before 1880 - Wikipedia

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    The first Italian American in Detroit was Alfonso Tonti (1659–1727) The first Italian American in Detroit was Alfonso Tonti, a Frenchman with an Italian immigrant father. He was the second-in-command of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who established Detroit in 1701. Tonti's child, born in 1703, was the first ethnic European child born in Detroit.