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The attack on Pearl Harbor. Leadership of the Japanese American communities are rounded up. Within 48 hours, 1,291 Issei men are held under no formal charges. Family isn't allowed to visit. Most would spend the war years in enemy alien internment camps run by the Justice Department.
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President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 which allows military authorities to exclude anyone from anywhere without trial or hearings. This order set the stage for the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans.
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The Navy informs Japanese American residents of Terminal Island near Los Angeles Harbor that they must leave in 48 hours. They are the first group to be removed en masse.
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The first advance groups of Japanese American "volunteers" arrive at Manzanar, CA.
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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." Gereral John L. DeWitt, head, Western Defense Command; before the House Naval Affairs Subcommittee.
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Jerome becomes the first camp to close when the last inmates are transferred to Rohwer.
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The surrender of Germany ends the war in Europe.
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The atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb is dropped on Nagasaki.
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Tule Lake closes, a month later, about 5000 internees, most elderly, impovershed, or mentally ill.
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Louis E. Goodman orders that the petitioners in Wayne Collins' suit, 1945 be released; native-born American citizens could not be converted to enemy aliens and could not be imprisoned or sent to Japan on the basis of renunciation.
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President Truman signs the Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act to compensate for economic losses.
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A resolution is announced. This resolution would have the JACL seek a bill in Congress awarding individual compensation tax-free.
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WWll Japanese American Human Rights Violations act is passed into Congress. Proposes payments of $15,000 per victem.
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Public hearing in Washington D.C. About 750 Japanese Americans witnesses spoke about wartime experiences.
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CWRIC issues recommendations for formal redress. Calls for payments of $20,000 to each individual who made it through the internment camps.
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H.R. 442 is signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. It provides for individual payments of $20,000 to each surviving internee and a $1.25 billion education fund among other provisions.
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