Japanese Internment

Japanese InternmentFarewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

1869

• First Japanese settle in Sacramento, California to help construct the railroad

1870

• Citizenship given to African Americans, but not to Japanese or Chinese

Americans

1886

• Japanese government allows citizens to permanently move to other countries

1911

• America does not allow Japanese to become natural

citizens

1913

• Japanese are not allowed to own land in California

1924

• All immigration from Japan stops due to the Immigration

Act

1939

• Germany declares war on Poland officially beginning

World War II

1941

• Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawaii

1942

• Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 giving the War

Department the right to evacuate Japanese

Americans into camps

1942 cont.

• Manzanar Camp opens in Owens Valley, CA

Remembering Manzanar

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac19C-rfMp8

1942 cont.

• 110,000 Japanese Americans are in camps. Evacuation

completed

1944

• U.S. Supreme Court rules that loyal citizens cannot be held in camps against their

will

1945

• Roosevelt dies from a stroke and Harry Truman takes

office

1945 cont.

• America drops two atomic bombs on Japan

1945 cont.

• Hitler commits suicide after realizing Germany is losing

the war

1945 cont.

• Japan surrenders, ending World War II

1945 cont.

• Manzanar camp officially closes

1952

• Japanese finally given the right to be natural

citizens.

Vocabulary

• Issei – The first generation. The Issei were born in Japan. Most immigrated to the United States between 1890 and 1915.

• Nisei – Second generation children of the Issei. American citizens by birth and born before World War II.

• Sansei – Third generation of Americans with Japanese ancestry born during or after World War II.