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This is the timeline of the Internment Camps in the United States durning World War Two. The ten Internment Camps held American-Japanese after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Created by iliketurtles on Nov 9, 2010

Last updated: 11/09/10 at 10:28 AM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Nov 9, 2010 9:59 AM

• Last Camp Closed
  Mar 20, 1946

  Tule Lake, CA Opened May 27, 1942. Closed March 20, 1946. Peak population 18,789.

• Press conference
  Oct 20, 1942

  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

• Camps Open.
  Aug 10, 1942

  The first inmates arrive at Minidoka, Idaho.

• Order 9066
  Feb 19, 1942

  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.

• The being of the war
  Dec 7, 1941

  The attack on Pearl Harbor. Local authorities and the F.B.I. begin to round up the leadership of the Japanese American communities. Within 48 hours, 1,291 Issei are in custody. These men are held under no formal charges and family members are forbidden from seeing them. Most would spend the war years in enemy alien internment camps run by the Justice Department.

• "Our people are 100% loyal to American."
  Nov 12, 1941

  Fifteen Japanese American businessmen and community leaders in Los Angeles Little Tokyo are picked up in an F.B.I. raid. A spokesman for the Central Japanese Association states: "We teach the fundamental principles of America and the high ideals of American democracy. We want to live here in peace and harmony. Our people are 100% loyal to America."