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Pearl Harbor
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The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and within 24 hours over 1,000 Japanese Americans were rounded up and taken into custody -
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The Internment of the Japanese Americans
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Executive Order 9066
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President Roosevelt issued executive order 9066 which stated that all Japanese Americans would be put into internment camps. -
The First
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The first group of Japanese Americans were moved to an internment camps. (Removed from their homes in Terminal Island, CA) -
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Conditions
<a href='http://www.pbs.org/childofcamphistory.html' The camps were overcrowded and the people were housed in tar-paper covered barracks. There wasn't any plumbing and the people had to pay for their own food while in the camps. -
Fighting Regiment
<a href='http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history.html' The first fighing regiment, 442nd, made up of only Japanese Americans was formed. -
Shoichi James Okamato
<a href='http://www.pbs/childofcamp/history/html' Shoichi James Okamato was shot to death -
Closing Time
<a href='http://www.pbs/childofcamp/history/timeline.html' Internment camp Jerome was the first to be closed and all of the inmates were transfered to Rohwer. -
War Ends
<a href='http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.org' Germany surrendered and the war in Europe ended. -
Atomic Bomb
<a href='http://www.pbs/childofcamp/history/timeline.org' The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and soon after, another was dropped on Nagasaki -
Manzanar Internment Camp Closed
<a href='http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/japanese-internment-camp-timeline' Manzanar Internment Camp was closed.
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Tule Lake Closes
<a href='http://http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html' Tule Lake Internment camp was closed andover 5,000 inmates had to be moved. -
442nd Combat Team in the White House
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Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act
<a href='http://http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html' President Truman signed the JAECA which was supposed to help the Japanese Americans who had been held in the internment camps. They were paid a small amount of money to help get them back into a financially stable place, but overall did almost nothing for them. -
Executive Order No 9066 Finally Repealled
<a href='http://www.momomedia.com/CLPEF/chrono.html' President Ford formally repealled Executive Order 9066
