The relocation and confinement of over 100,000 Japanese Americans during World War II was known as what policy?

• A. The GI Bill
• B. The Manhattan Project
• C. Emancipation Proclamation
• D. Internment of Japanese Americans

Answer: (D)

This question asks you to identify the policy that relocated and confined more than 100,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. After Pearl Harbor, fear and suspicion led the U.S. government to remove people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast and place them in camps inland, regardless of whether they were citizens. This policy is known as the internment of Japanese Americans. Executive Order 9066 in 1942 authorized these removals, and roughly 110,000 to 120,000 people were affected, many of whom were U.S. citizens. Life in the camps was restrictive and raised major civil-liberties concerns, and the policy is now viewed as a grave violation of rights, later acknowledged by the government with a formal apology and reparations in 1988. The other options refer to different events: the GI Bill provided veterans with education and benefits; the Manhattan Project was the effort to develop atomic weapons; and the Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people during the Civil War.