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Pearl Harbor
In Hawaii 2 waves of japanese fighter planes bombed pearl harbor . 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded. The following day the U.S. declared war on Japan. -
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Japanese Internment Camps
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President Roosevelt signs the order to deport and confine people of japanese ancestery.
President Roosevelt signs the order to deport and confine people of japanese ancestery. Even it they were born in America the goverment thought that people with japanese ancestery would want to help their home country. -
More than 66% of Japanese-Americans sent to camps
By the spring of 1942 more than 66% of Japanese-Americans had been sent to internment camps, most born in the U.S.A and many never even been to Japan. -
Japanese American baseball team in Idaho compete in the state tournament.
Men and woman made sports teams inside the camps. Sometime the security guards and the Japanese American teams. Japanese American baseball team in Idaho compete in the state tournament. -
9 of 10 camps shut down
Nine of the ten camps were shut down by the end of 1945, although Tule Lake, which held "renunciants" slated for deportation to Japan, was not closed until March 20, 1946 -
All the camps are shut down.
The WRA was created by President Roosevelt on March 18, 1942 and officially ceased to exist June 30, 1946. The Japanese Americans try to go back to living a normal life. -
JACL asks congress to give the survivors 25,000 dollars each
The campaign for redress was launched by Japanese Americans in 1978. The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), which had cooperated with the administration during the war, became part of the movement. It asked for three measures: $25,000 to be awarded to each person who was detained, an apology from Congress acknowledging publicly that the U.S. government had been wrong, and the release of funds to set up an educational foundation for the children of Japanese-American families. -
The government gives the surviving victims 20,000 dollars each
The government gives the surviving victims 20,000 dollars and an apology to each of the Japanese-Americans who were driven from their homes and sent to internment camps in World War II.Only 60,000 prisoners of the internment camps were still alive. -
The government makes the camps into historical landmarks
In 2001 the congress makes the camps into historical landmarks as to forever stand as reminders that this nation failed in its most sacred duty to protect its citizens against prejudice, greed, and political expediency
