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Papa is born in japan.
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Papa drops out of the Japanese navy, and goes to the US
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Jeanne Wakatsuki is born, and is the youngest out of the Wakatsuki family.
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Jeanne, her mom, and her family are arrested and sent to the camps. They only had 48 hours to clear up.
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Surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japan
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The FBI came and took papa from the home.
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The FBI arrested him because they say he delivered oil to the Japanese submarines.
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Papa was interveiwed in Fort Lincoln, and he worked as an interveiwer there.
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A student, Gordon Hirabayashi, challenged the evacuation order. He also violated the army's curfews.
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The family is reunited, but the family is changed.
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Pspa come back home after 9 months, and the family greets him with tears, instead of joy.
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Papa is abusing and beating mama and there is nothing they can do.
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Woody punches papa when he attepts to kill mama.
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After Papa came back, he only drank, and was never nice. Even though mother tried to comfort him, she only got threats. One day, Pap attempted to beat her dead.
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Jeanne and her family move to block 28 in Manzanar.
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The authorities started letting them out for recreation.
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Jeanne and Kiyo got to go to school in Manzanar.
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Eleanor and Shig were the first Wakatsukis to leave the camp.
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Woody, Jeanne's second oldest brother is signing up to go in the military, but papa wants him to stay.
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About 6000 people remained in Manzanar.
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Woody's unit was called up, and the family went down to see him go.
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On that night, Fred Tayama was beaten by 6 men, and was taken to the hospital. They were beating him up, because people were asking and protesting for better food, and wages.
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Eleanor gives birth to her first baby.
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On August 6th, an atomic bomb falls on Hiroshima, Japan.
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After th bomb was dropped on Japan, they gave up and th US won the world war. However, poeple still hated the japenese, and were cruel to them, sometimes lighting their houses on fire.
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Jeanne leaves the camp, and she is eleven.
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Even when she was chosen to be the carnival queen, but she was worried aobut how other will think of her, as the japenese girl. People still did not like Japenese people, so Jeanne had a hard time.
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Jeanne becomes carnival queen, but Papa wanted her to not do it.
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Papa dies 12 years after he comes out of the camp.
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Jeanne and her family go back and visit the ruiins of Manzanar camp.
