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The Japanese launched an attack on the US Navy, with many ships stationed in Pearl Harbor, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Franklin Delenor Rosevelt signs a law into effect allowing Japanese internment camps to be constructed and used, also known as Order 9066
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Americans decide it's time to pull there forces out of the Phillipines. Ordered by General MacAurthor.
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A British tanker gets sunk by German ships on the cost of Bermuda.
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Nazi German surrends out of WWII
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The United States dropped there first atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. Three days later we dropped the second bomb on Heroshima, Japan. In turn ending the war with Japan.
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The last Japanese-American camp in the United States was closed.
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President Truman puts 28 million towards recompansating Japanesse American econiomic losses.
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The Japanese American Citizen Leages of Northern California-Western Navada District Council asked congress to award individual tax free compmensation.
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Representitive Mike Lowry introduces the WWII Japanese American Rights Act. Also know as 5977. It pays 15 dollars a day and a direct 15,000 dollars to victims. The JACL bill that was introduced two months earlier was chosen over it though.
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Public hearing in Washington D.C. as part of the investagation into the internment of Japanese Americans in WWII.
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The CWRIC calls for individual payments of 20,000 of those who spent time in internment camps.
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HR442 singed into law by President Ronald Regan providing a payment of 20,000 to each surviving internee.
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