During World War II, security concerns in the United States prompted the "internment" of thousands of Japanese American citizens, which was and still is deemed a major breach in civil liberties. <span>
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The events on the said day/night was the Night of the broken Glass, or Kristallnacht which were the day when the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis openly started. It started because of the killing of the Nazi German Diplomat, Ernst vom Rath by a Polish Jew. The term Kristallnacht was coined because of the broken glass produced by the ransacking of Jewish establishments and Synagogues.
Its A because George W. Bush signed this act into law in 2001.