In 1942, the midterm elections played a profound role in the outcome of how the Japanese internment was addressed. It is clear that the way how the situation was handled after Pearl Harbor was not great. President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to punish Japanese Americans living in the United States by forcing them to abandon everything they owned and live in what were called relocation” in order to keep Americans safe. question that no one asked is whether in fact the American people were ever in immediate danger? questions that should have been asked but were not. The different types of propaganda hindered the appearance of the Japanese due to I discussed Roosevelt's “Executive Order 9033” to lock up unwanted personnel, as the novel expresses this by showing the readers what really happened. I feel like his words do a great job of exploiting the skeletons of the United States that they have tried to hide from the public in the years since. For example when Otsuka explains “the signs on the windows were all the same everywhere they went: NO JAPS ALLOWED. Life was easier, they said, on the other side of the fence.” (Otsuka 67). As Americans we didn't see the pain we caused these people, all we had in mind was anger. That anger blinded us from right and led us to wrong without us even realizing that what we were doing was wrong. The public turned to the only person who could make any action possible, the President. Needless to say, Roosevelt was under public and political pressure and almost forcibly signed the executive order to remove and detain Japanese and Japanese-Americans from their homes and businesses. Since President Roosevelt was in the midterm elections at the time, he knew he had to make a change that would bring his popularity to an all-time high. It was a strategic and smart move on his part, but it won him over in the long run