Japanese-American Intrernment

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    World War II

  • Roosevelt Signs Executive Order 9066

    It authorizes the imprisonment of all people of Japanese ancestry living in the U.S.

  • First "Volunteer" Inmates are interned at the Manzanar, California camp

    This occurs at the Manzanar camp in California.

  • Inmates arrive at Minidoka, Idaho internment camp

  • Inmates Arrive at the Heart Mountain, Wyoming Internment Camp

  • Inmates arrive at the Granada, Colorado camp

  • Inmates arrive at the Topaz, Utah camp

  • Inmates arrive at the Rohwer, Arkansas Internment Camp

  • President Roosevelt calls the Internment camps "Concentration Camps"

  • Supreme Court Verifies Constitutionality of the Internment

  • Germany Surrenders, ending the war in Europe

  • Japan Surrenders, ending World War II.