It wasn't necessarily justified in everybody's eyes. But in his own eyes, and obviously the eyes of congress, he justified it as saying that he was not holding people hostage, he was holding them to see if they were or were not communists.
The Monroe Doctrine was established long before Franklin Roosevelt, or even Theodore Roosevelt, was born. Both of them used it to justify some of their actions in Latin America. In particular, FDR used it to justify the portions of Lend-Lase that resulted in the US leasing naval facilities in the Caribbean.
only us can help Central and south America
Justify America's neutrality His audience held many different opinions about the war.
Economic interests in the area
They felt "entitled" to the islands of the Pacific. They were doing it to increase the land that they controlled.
Roosevelt Corollary
Such action was needed to defend American interests.
roosevelt corollary
Badly. Some of the military leaders in California were .... OK, racists, and decided that Japanese might be disloyal. After all, they might send signals to Japanese airplanes or saboteurs, right? So, many Japanese, and Americans of Japanese ancestry, were interned in rather unpleasant conditions away from the coast for the duration of the war. It's astonishing, therefore, that when the Army asked for Japanese to volunteer for service, that so many did, and served so heroically. The 442nd Regiment, composed almost entirely of Japanese-Americans, fought in Europe and were the most highly decorated unit in American history. As an interesting side-note, Japanese in Hawaii were not interned, even though Hawaii was far more densely populated with Japanese, and there were virtually no acts of sabotage or espionage among Japanese or Japanese-Americans.
Absolutely not. The Japanese acted of their own accord.
I can give you several sentences.He tried to think of an excuse to justify his bad behavior.Can you justify that action?"Justify me; open my mind to the things I can be." (from the Nate James song "Justify Me")suzan had to justify the amount of time she would give me for the test
On my math test they asked me to justify my answer.