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Attack
The attack on Pearl Harbor. So President Rosevelt opened internment camps to house Japanese so they cant spy on America. The physical standards of life in the relocation centers have never been much above the bare subsistence level.They were also over crowded.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/relocbook.html
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Japanese internment Camps
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I'm terified
"I remember the soldiers marching us to the Army tank and I looked at their rifles and I was just terrified because I could see this long knife at the end . . . I thought I was imagining it as an adult much later . . . I thought it couldn't have been bayonets because we were just little kids."
http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/japan_internment_camps.htm
http://www.glogster.com/bellasophiabella/japanese-internment-by-bellasophiabella/g-6lkufbklu4t9fd3dhc9a4a0 -
Internment camps open
Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Under the terms of the Order, some 120,000 people of Japanese descent living in the US were forced away from their homes and placed in internment camps. The US justified their action by claiming that there was a danger of those of Japanese descent spying for the Japanese. disloyalty to the nation. In some cases family members were forced to be separated.
http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/japan_internmen
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WRA
The president signs Executive Order 9102 establishing the War Relocation Authority (WRA) ,which relocates the japanese, with Milton Eisenhower as director. It is given $5.5 million.
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html
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We're free!
Japanese Americans are allowed to go back to their homes. Although most of the Japanese Americans didn't have jobs or houses.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-approves-end-to-internment-of-japanese-americans -
Surrender
The surrender of Germany ends the war in Europe.
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Hiroshima
The atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb is dropped on Nagasaki. The war in the Pacific would end on August 14.
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html
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Claims Act
President Truman signs the Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act, a measure to compensate Japanese Americans for certain economic losses because to their forced evacuation. Although some $28 million was to be paid out through provision of the act.
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Tax free resolution
A resolution is announced by the Japanese American Citizen League's Northern California-Western Nevada District Council calling for reparations for the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. This resolution would have the JACL seek a bill in Congress awarding individual compensation based on how long you were in the camp and, tax-free. -
Trying to make amends
Representative Mike Lowry (D-WA) introduces the World War II Japanese-American Human Rights Violations Act (H.R. 5977) into Congress.It proposes direct payments of $15,000 per victim plus an addtional $15 per day interned.
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Appologies are propossed
The CWRIC issues its formal recommendations to Congress concerning redress for Japanese Americans interned during World War II. They include the call for individual payments of $20,000 to each of those who spent time in the concentration camps and are still alive.
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Appolegies
H.R. 442 is signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. It provides for individual payments of $20,000 to each surviving internee and a $1.25 billion education fund among other provisions
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html.
http://www.bayshoreteaparty.org/ronald-reagan/
