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Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base killing more than 2300 people. The USS Arizona was completely destroyed and the USS Oklahoma was capsized. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec07.html -
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Japanese Internment Camps
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Roosevelts order
Roosevelt ordered that all Americans of Japanese decent and resident aliens from Japan to be put into an internment camp. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5154/ -
Us General John L. DeWit
US General John L. DeWit was responsible for the defence of the west coast. The states Washington, Oregon, and California were three states that Japanese-Americans were excluted from. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._DeWitt -
Philipines to Japanese
US General Douglas MacArthur abandons the island fortress of Corregidor under comand from President Rosevelt. History.com/this-day-in-history/macaurthur-leaves-corrigidor -
Mixed Camps
Niesi elegebility for the draft is restored. The reaction in the camps would be mixed. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html -
Nazi Germany surrenders in WWII
Germany signed in allied Reims, France an unconditional surrender that would take effect the next day to end the conflict in Erope. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/may-7-1945-nazi-germany-surrenders-in-world-war-ii/ -
Japanese released
302 people released from camps by judge crystal city http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html -
President Truman
Truman signed the Japanese evacuation act. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html -
Tax-free
The JACL seek that Japanese Americans are tax-free if congress will pass the bill. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html -
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We saw all these people behind the fence, looking out, hanging onto the wire, and looking out because they were anxious to know who was coming in. But I will never forget the shocking feeling that human beings were behind this fence like animals [crying]. And we were going to also lose our freedom and walk inside of that gate and find ourselves…cooped up there…when the gates were shut, we knew that we had lost something that was very precious; that we were no longer free." Mary Tsukamoto -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan signed into law that the survivors will recive $20,000 and a $1.25 billion education fund. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html
