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Pearl Harbor
Japenese fighter planes attack Pearl Harbor and destroy many ships.
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Internment camps
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Executive Order 9066
The U.S. Goverment makes an official order to detain japenese americans.
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Executive order 9095
Executive Order 9095 gave the Office of Alien Property Custodian the ability to take Japenese Americans property.
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Sometime [the train] stop[ped], you know, fifteen to twenty minutes to take fresh air-suppertime and in the desert, in middle of state. Already before we get out of train, army machine guns lined up towards us-not toward other side to protect us, but like enemy, pointed machine guns toward us. -Henry Sugimoto, artisthttp://www.westernhistoryassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/Clary_Japanese-Internment-Camps.pdf -
Public Proclamation 3
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Nazi Germany Surrenders
The Nazis surrender in world war two to the Brtitish American forces.
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The Bombing of Nagazagi
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Tule Lake Transport
The 5000 inmates of the Tule lake internment camp were moved and many of them were mentally ill or elderly.
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Release of Prisoners
Three Hundred people are let out from the Crystal city internment camp in New Jersey, only to be left with nothing, as their homes and businesses were taken over.
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Truman signs refund
The American Japemese populaation that survived recieves a total of 28 million dollars in compensation.
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Japenese Human Rights Violation Act
Each victim of the intertment camps is compensated with 15000 dollars and 15 dollars per day interned.
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Further Compensation
The CWRIC issues a formal reccomadation to pay back each Japenese person with connection to the camps that is still alive.
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H.R. 442
The compensation is signed by President Reagen giving 20000 dollars to each Japenese American affected and giving 1.25 billion to Japenese education.
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html
