Roosevelt’s Executive Order No. 9066 was based on

Executive Order No. 9066 authorized military exclusion zones during World War II, leading to the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans. The government justified the order by claiming that Japanese Americans might threaten national security, despite lacking evidence that they as a group were disloyal. Thus, the correct choice is “the assumption that Japanese Americans posed a threat to national security.”

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