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Presedent Rosevelt established internement camps for all Hawaiian japanies americans
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The Japanese Attacked Perl Harbor in O'ahu Hawaii on Dec.7 1941
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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. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html
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The Navy informs Japanese American residents of Terminal Island near Los Angeles Harbor that they must leave in 48 hours. They are the first group to be removed en masse. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html
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The surrender of Germany ends the war in Europe. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html
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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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Tule Lake closes, culminating "an incrediblle mass evacuation in reverse." In the month prior to the closing, some 5,000 internees had to be moved, many of whom were elderly, impoverished, or mentally ill and with no place to go. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html
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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 on a per diem basis, tax-free. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html
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"...I remember my mother wrapping
A blanket around me and my
Pretending to fall asleep
so she would be happy
Though I was so excited I couldn't sleep.
(I hear there were people herded
Into the Hastings Park like cattle
Families were made to move in two hours
Abandoned everything, leaving pets
And possessions at gun point..."
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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. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html
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The government formay apologises to the japanes americans for puting them in intehttprnment camps.
http://www.factmonster.com/spot/internment1.html
