In 1942, the midterm elections played a profound role in how Japanese internment was handled. It is clear that the way the situation was handled after Pearl Harbor was not very good. President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to punish Japanese Americans living in the United States by forcing them to give up everything they owned to live in what were called "relocation camps" in order to keeping Americans safe. One question no one has asked is whether the American people were ever in immediate danger? Were there crimes involving Japanese and Americans? These are the kinds of questions that should have been asked but weren't. The various types of propaganda hindered the appearance of the Japanese due to Roosevelt's "Executive Order 9033" to lock up unwanted personnel, while the novel expresses this by showing readers what actually happened. I feel like his lyrics do a great job of mining the skeletons of the United States that it has 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 failed to see the pain we inflicted on these people, all we had in mind was anger. This anger blinded us from good and led us to evil without us even realizing that what we were doing was wrong. The public turned to the only person capable of making these actions possible, the President. Needless to say, Roosevelt came under public and political pressure and almost forcibly signed the executive order to expel and detain Japanese and Japanese Americans from their homes and businesses. As President Roosevelt was in the midst of a midterm election, he knew he had to make a change that would take his popularity to an all-time high. It was a strategic and smart move on his part, but in the long run it led him to