Japanese Internment Camps

By missbehr

  • Pearl Harbor Attack

    Pearl Harbor Attack
    The Japaense bombed Pearl harbore in Hawaii, then a U.S. territory.

  • War Declared

    United States declares war on Japan.

  • Japanese Americans Targeted

    Many Americans became suspicious of Japanaese immigrants and their children. Most Japanese Amercans lived ont he West Coast.

  • Japanese Americans Let Go

    Japanese Americans Let Go
    TimelineAs some of the evacuees were allowed to return home, they were faced with a number of hostile attacks. These included the defacing of Japanese American homes in Seattle and an attempt to dynamite a Japanese American packaging shed in Placer County, California.