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pearl harbor attack
The japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. THey destroyed almost every ship in the harbor. HUnderends of sailors were trapped in the sinking ships and died smimming to shore in the oil filed waters. -
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The path to brotherhood
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sizing of japanese
December 8, 1941- Japanese bank accounts and businesses are seized by the Department of the Treasury. After the attack on Peral harbor japanese bank accounts and homes and businesses were seized. -
Order 9066
Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, dated February 19, 1942, gave the military broad powers to ban any citizen from a fifty- to sixty-mile-wide coastal area stretching from Washington state to California and extending inland into southern Arizona. -
Land to hold.
Manzanar is most widely known as the site of one of ten camps where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II. Located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in California's Owens Valley between the towns of Lone Pine to the south and Independence to the north, it is approximately 230 miles (370 km) northeast of Los Angeles. -
Frist Internment camp
First large contingent of Japanese and Japanese Americans moved from Los Angeles to the Manzanar temporary detention center Manzanar, California Opened March 21, 1942. Closed November 21, 1945. Peak population 10,046. Origin of prisoners: Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, San Joaquin County, Bainbridge Island, Washington. It was the first of the ten camps to open -- initially as a processing center.First Internment camp. -
Combat
Secretary of War Henry Stimson announced plans to form an all-Japanese American Combat team to be made up of volunteers from both the mainland and Hawaii. -
Interment ending
The WRA announced that all internment camps would be closed before the end of 1945 and the entire WRA program would be liquidated on June 30, 1946. -
D-Day
June 6 D-Day. June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade.More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded -- but more than 100,000 Soldiers began -
Free Japanese
April 29 442--All Japanese American Regiment frees prisoners at Dachau Concentration Camps
