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Suprise attack by the Japanese Imperial Navy on the United States naval base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The attack was meant to keep the U.S. navy out of eastern Japan, but only fueled the Americans. www.pearlharbor.org
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President Franklin Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 setting in motion the expulsion of 110,000 Japanese Americans. The camps were originally established because of the war between the U.S. and Japanese. The U.S. was paranoid that some Japanese Americans were spies. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5154/
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The Army issued the first civilian exclusion order for bainbridge island. By the end of october 100 would be ordered. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html
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The 442nd regimental team becomes activated, this team was made up of just Japanese Americans. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html
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"A Jap's a Jap. There is no way to determine their loyalty... This coast is too vulnerable. No Jap should come back to this coast except on a permit from my office." -John L. DeWitt http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html
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Japanese described it as a prison like living station. "The camps represented a prison: no freedom, no privacy, no ‘America'." A man was shotdown trying to escape from his internment camp. http://la8period3.pbworks.com/w/page/25942447/Living%20Conditions%20of%20Japanese%20American%20Internment%20Camps
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America drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, three days later another bomb is dropped on Nagasaki. The war in the Pacific would end on August 14. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html
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Tule Lake closes setting off a mass evacuation of Japanese internees. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html
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My grandmother told me about her release. As she was released she was hoping everything could be normal once again, however they had lost their jobs, their house, and almost everything they owned. All of them had been taken from them and ethnic families had bought them from them, without giving my grandmother's family a say. My grandmother has been prejudice ever since then. (no link)
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The CWRIC sends recommendations to congress to redress the Japanese Americans who lived in the internment camps. All the Japanese Americans who lived through it were given $20,000. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html
