Impounded

Japanese Internment

By Ayookendraa17

  • Pearl Harbor Attack

    Pearl Harbor Attack
    The attack on Pearl Harbor. Local authorities and the F.B.I. begin to round up the leadership of the Japanese American communities

  • Executive Order 9066

    Executive Order 9066
    President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 which allows military authorities to exclude anyone from anywhere without trial or hearings. Though the subject of only limited interest at the time, this order set the stage for the entire forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans.

  • Executive Order 9102

    Executive Order 9102
    The president signs Executive Order 9102 establishing the War Relocation Authority.

  • First Civilian Exclusion order

    The first Civilian Exclusion Order issued by the Army is issued for the Bainbridge Island area near Seattle. The forty-five families there are given one week to prepare. By the end of October, 108 exclusion orders would be issued, and all Japanese Americans in Military Area and the California portion would be in prision.

  • Concentration Camps

    Concentration Camps
    President Roosevelt calls the "relocation centers" "concentration camps" at a press conference. The WRA had consistently denied that the term "concentration camps" accurately described the camps.

  • Camp

    Camp
    Jerome becomes the first camp to close when the last inmates are transferred to

  • 442nd Regimental Combat

    442nd Regimental Combat
    The 442nd Regimental Combat Team rescues an American battalion which had been cut off and surrounded by the enemy. Eight hundred casualties are suffered by the 442nd to rescue 211 men. After this rescue, the 442nd is ordered to keep advancing in the forest; they would push ahead without relief or rest until November 9.

  • Good Work Pays Off

    Good Work Pays Off
    The 442nd Regimental Combat Team is received on the White House lawn by President Truman. "You fought not only the enemy but you fought prejudice -- and you have won," remarks the president.

  • Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan
    President Ronald Reagan signs HR 442 into law. It acknowledges that the incarceration of more than 110,000 individuals of Japanese descent was unjust, and offers an apology and reparation payments of $20,000 to each person incarcerated.

  • Endining

    Endining
    In a Washington D.C. ceremony, the first nine redress payments are made.