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Farewell to Manzanar

  • Papa is born

    Papa is born in japan.
  • Papa's moving

    Papa's moving
    Papa drops out of the Japanese navy, and goes to the US
  • Jeanne is born

    Jeanne is born
    Jeanne Wakatsuki is born, and is the youngest out of the Wakatsuki family.
  • The Wakatukis are arrested

    Jeanne, her mom, and her family are arrested and sent to the camps. They only had 48 hours to clear up.
  • 1941

    1941
    Surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japan
  • FBI

    FBI
    The FBI came and took papa from the home.
  • Prison

    Prison
    The FBI arrested him because they say he delivered oil to the Japanese submarines.
  • Papa's interveiw

    Papa was interveiwed in Fort Lincoln, and he worked as an interveiwer there.
  • A student challenges the evacuation order

    A student, Gordon Hirabayashi, challenged the evacuation order. He also violated the army's curfews.
  • Reunited

    The family is reunited, but the family is changed.
  • Papa comes back home

    Papa comes back home
    Pspa come back home after 9 months, and the family greets him with tears, instead of joy.
  • Papa is abusing mama

    Papa is abusing and beating mama and there is nothing they can do.
  • The nose of "God" has been bloodied

    Woody punches papa when he attepts to kill mama.
  • LIfe after Papa came back

    After Papa came back, he only drank, and was never nice. Even though mother tried to comfort him, she only got threats. One day, Pap attempted to beat her dead.
  • Jeanne and her family move

    Jeanne and her family move to block 28 in Manzanar.
  • Recreation

    The authorities started letting them out for recreation.
  • School

    Jeanne and Kiyo got to go to school in Manzanar.
  • First ones to leave

    Eleanor and Shig were the first Wakatsukis to leave the camp.
  • Woody

    Woody
    Woody, Jeanne's second oldest brother is signing up to go in the military, but papa wants him to stay.
  • Departures

    About 6000 people remained in Manzanar.
  • Woody goes to the military

    Woody's unit was called up, and the family went down to see him go.
  • The Mess halls

    On that night, Fred Tayama was beaten by 6 men, and was taken to the hospital. They were beating him up, because people were asking and protesting for better food, and wages.
  • Baby is born

    Eleanor gives birth to her first baby.
  • HIroshima bomb

    HIroshima bomb
    On August 6th, an atomic bomb falls on Hiroshima, Japan.
  • World war ends

    After th bomb was dropped on Japan, they gave up and th US won the world war. However, poeple still hated the japenese, and were cruel to them, sometimes lighting their houses on fire.
  • Leaving Manzanar

    Leaving Manzanar
    Jeanne leaves the camp, and she is eleven.
  • Jeanne in school

    Even when she was chosen to be the carnival queen, but she was worried aobut how other will think of her, as the japenese girl. People still did not like Japenese people, so Jeanne had a hard time.
  • Jeanne becomes carnival queen

    Jeanne becomes carnival queen
    Jeanne becomes carnival queen, but Papa wanted her to not do it.
  • Papa's death

    Papa's death
    Papa dies 12 years after he comes out of the camp.
  • Back at Manzanar

    Back at Manzanar
    Jeanne and her family go back and visit the ruiins of Manzanar camp.