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Pearl Harbor
Japanese bomb pearl harbpr in Hawaii because The United States helped the side of Britain, France, Dutch colonies, and Southwest Asia in WWII historyonthenet.com/ww2/japan-camps.html -
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Japanese internment
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Order 9066
President Franklin Deleanor Roosevelelt uses Executive order to issue order 9066 placing 120,000 Japanese Americans in Internment camps for danger of spying. historyon the net.com/ww2/japan-camps.html -
Civillian Exclusion
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Quoatation of children of the camps
"I remember the slodiers marching us to the army tank and I looked at their rifles and i was just terrified because i could see this long at the end" . . . "I thought i was an adult much later" . . . "I thought it couldn'tve been bayonets because we were little kids" -
Gila, Arizona
7000 people put in place intended for 5000 people. Housed in messhalls, recreation halls,and latrines, 25 people in a place for 4 pbs.org/childofcamp/history/camps.html -
Loyalty test
If over the age of 17 asked two loyalty questions: Will you fight for the U.S military? Will You defend U.S. if under attack by any country? If you did not take test, you were sent to a segregation center in Tule Lake.
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Release
Public Proclamation Number 21 allows internees t return to homes. After the war, some Japaneese Americans went back to Japan and some also stayed here in the states. hidtoryonthenet.com/WW2/japaninternmentcamps.htm -
European campaign over
Dountz (Hitler's successor) offers surrender to the allies. U.S.A hoping that this means that Japan will surrender and Japaneese Americans hoping that means that they can return home historyonthenet.com/WW2/japaninternmentcamps.htm -
Hiroshima Bomb
Little Boy (the name of the bomb) dropped on Hiroshima. Japaneese surrender, war is over and no more woriews about spies. Some japaneese americans return home pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html -
Close of Tule lake
One fo the biggest internment camps; Tule Lake was closed because of an evacuation of 5,000 internees the month prior. Most of the internees, were elderly, mentally ill, impoverished, and homeless.
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Native japaneese
US District judge Louis E. Goodman releases petioners that tried to convict Native Americans to be enemy foriegners pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html -
JACL
The JACL(Japanese American Citizens League) announce a resoultions for a reparation (repyment) to the Japanese Americans that were jailed. pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.htm -
Government Apologizes
Congress passed a legaslation which rewarded payments of $20,000 to the surviving internees from the camps. There were 60,000 people in all. The canadain government also the same year issued aplogies to the japenese canadains and $21,000 canadain dollars. www.factmonster.com/sput/internment1.html
