Timeline: Japanese Internment Mike and Katrina

Dec 7, 1941

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

Period: Dec 7, 1941 to Aug 10, 1988

The Internment of the Japanese Americans

Feb 19, 1942

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.

Feb 25, 1942

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)

Feb 25, 1942

Video Timeline

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Feb 25, 1942

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.

Feb 1, 1943

Fighting Regiment

<a href='http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history.html' The first fighing regiment, 442nd, made up of only Japanese Americans was formed.

May 24, 1944

Shoichi James Okamato

<a href='http://www.pbs/childofcamp/history/html' Shoichi James Okamato was shot to death

Jun 30, 1944

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.

May 7, 1945

War Ends

<a href='http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.org' Germany surrendered and the war in Europe ended.

Aug 6, 1945

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

Nov 21, 1945

Manzanar Internment Camp Closed

<a href='http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/japanese-internment-camp-timeline' Manzanar Internment Camp was closed.
(The peak population was 10,046 people)

Mar 20, 1946

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.

Jul 15, 1946

442nd Combat Team in the White House

href='http://http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html' President Truman invited the 442nd combat team to the White House, and said, "You have fought not only the enemy but prejudice, and you have won."

Jul 2, 1948

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.