Japanese American internment from 1942-1946
- April 28, 1942: Seattle
Japanese Americans sent to Camp Harmony. more...
- May 5, 1942: University of Washington student, Gordon Hirabayshi
refused to follow curfew and evacuation orders. He was arrested after
he turned himself in.
- August 10, 1942: Minidoka
Internment Camp is open, only nine months
after Pearl Harbor. It is located near Jerome, Idaho. The Seattle
Japanese have been incarcerated for four months up to this point. more...
- August 12, 1942: Heart Mountain Internment Camp opened. It was located in Wyoming.
- Jerome, Arkansas was the last to open as an internment camp.
- February 1943: President Roosevelt allows Nisei to be in the army.
- August 15, 1945: World War II ends when Japan surrenders to the
Allies, after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- 1952: McCarran-Walter Immigration and Naturalization Act allowed
Issei naturalization.
- 1976: 34th Anniversary of Executive Order 9066.
President Gerald Ford declared the evacuation a “National Mistake.” 5
- 1988: HR 422-signed into law by President Reagan providing reparations
for surviving internees.
- 1990: $20,000 in redress payments were sent to all Japanese Americans
who were interned.
- November 9, 2000: The dedication of the National Japanese American Memorial in Washington D.C.
5. Ng, Wendy. Japanese American Internment During World War II. Westport : Greenwood Press. 2002.