Pear! Harbor was bombed in December 1941, the military feared a Japanese attack on the American government was worried that Americans of Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order forcing descent might aid the enemy. In 1942, President many West Coast Japanese and Japanese Americans into internment camps. Fred Korematsu, a Japanese American, tried to avoid being interned, but was later arrested and convicted of violating an executive order.Korematsu challenged his conviction in the courts saying the government did not have the power to issue the relocation orders and that he was being discriminated against based on his race. The government rgued that the evacuation was necessary to protect the ountry and the federal appeals court agreed. Korematsu ppealed this decision and the case came before the U.S. upreme Court. The Court agreed with government and ated that the need to protect the country was a greater lority than the individual rights of the Japanese and panese Americans. Why was Document C created? to defend the Supreme Court's majority opinion in the Korematsu ruling. to gain support for President Roosevelt's executive orders during World War II. to provide students with information about an important decision by the Supreme Court. to honor Japanese Americans who were sent to internment camps.