ENEMY ALIEN CONTROL PROGRAM

Washington, D.C. • December 8, 1941 Although the devastating Japanese surprise attack on U.S. mili­tary instal­la­tions at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Decem­ber 7, 1941, came as a shock to most Amer­i­cans, Presi­dent Franklin D. Roose­velt’s admin­is­tra­tion had already begun weighing pos­sible responses to an out­break of war with Japan, Germany, and Italy—countries treaty-bound in a mutual…