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Pearl Harbor Attack
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, in the US, territory of Hawaï. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II -
The United States declaration of war upon Japan
On December 8, 1941, the United States Congress declared war upon the Empire of Japan un response to it's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the prior day. It was formulated an hour after the Infamy Speech of the US President Franklin D. Roosvelt. Following the declaration, Japan's allies, Germany ans Italy, declared war on the United States, bringing the United States fully into World War II -
Executive Order 9066
Issued by the President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. -
Internment of Japanese Americans
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country. -
Civilian exclusion orders
Exclusion Order No.1 set the template for the others to follow. Exclusion Order notices were posted on buildings, billboards, telephone poles, and other high visibility spots whithin the exclusion area. The notice announced the exclusion of Japanese Americans and gave them one week to prepare. -
Murder
Forty five year old Ichiro Shimoda, a Los Angeles gardener, is shot to death by guards while trying to escape from Fort Still enemy alien internment camp. The victim was seriously mentally ill, having tried suicide twice since being picked up on December 7. He is shot despite the guard's knowledge of his mental state. -
Closing of the Jerome War Internment camp
The Jerome War Relocation Center was a Japanese American internment camp located in southeastern Arkansas near the town of Jerome. Open from October 6, 1942, until June 30, 1944, it was the last relocation camp to open and the first to close, and at one point it held as many as 8,497 inhabitants.[1][2] After closing, it was converted into a holding camp for German prisoners of war.[1] Today, there are few remains of the camp still visible, the most prominent being the smokestack from the hospita -
Beginning of forgiveness
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Closing of internment Camps
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America compensates Japanese's evacuation
