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Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Japanese bombed us at Pearl Harbor which started the U.S.'s involment in WW2. pbs.org -
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Internment Camps
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Exective Order 9066
Rosevelt signed executive order 9066 about 120,000 Japanese living in the U.S. were placed in internment camps. They were placed in the internment camps because the U.S. thought that anyone of them could have been spys for Japan. http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/japan internment camps.htm -
Internment Camps
The first advance groups of Japanese American "volunteers" arrive in California. The WRA would takes over on June 1st and make it into a "relocation center."
The internment camps were overcrowded and were in poor living conditions. "Tarpaper-covered barrocks of simple frame construction without plumbing or cooking facilities of any kind"
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Shooting at Manzanar
Hikoji Takeuchi was shot by a guard who claimed he was running away from him after he yelled at him. The man said that he was collecting scrap lumber and hear the guard. The man was seriously injured but later recovered. pbs.org -
Germany Surrenders
Germany surrenders from the war in Europe. www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html -
Bombing at Hiroshima
The U.S. droped an atonic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan. www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html -
Bombing at Nagasaki
After the U.S. dropped the bomb on Hiroshima they dropped another one on Nagasaki three days later. www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html -
End of Pacific War
After both bombings in Japan, the war ended on Aug. 14. www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html -
H.R. 5977
Reprseative Mike Lowry prosposed law H.R. 5977. Giving each victim $15,000 and each day they were interned an additional $15 were givin to the victims. www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html -
Law H.R. 442
President Ronald Reagan signed law H.R. 442 into law. Paying each surviving interee $20,000. They had to pay the internees because they were still facing hardships even 20 years after they were free. They didn't have any money to survive, a place to stay or any contact with their families. http://www.factmonster.com/spot/internment1.html
