Japanese Internment Camps

Pearl Harbor Attack

Dec 7, 1941

The Japaense bombed Pearl harbore in Hawaii, then a U.S. territory.

War Declared

Dec 8, 1941

United States declares war on Japan.

Japanese Americans Targeted

Dec 9, 1941

Many Americans became suspicious of Japanaese immigrants and their children. Most Japanese Amercans lived ont he West Coast.

Japanese Americans Let Go

Oct 24, 1945

TimelineAs some of the evacuees were allowed to return home, they were faced with a number of hostile attacks. These included the defacing of Japanese American homes in Seattle and an attempt to dynamite a Japanese American packaging shed in Placer County, California.