Japanese American Incarceration during WWII Timeline
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Japanese American Incarceration in WWII
By Liane Hicks
During World War II, the United States government forcibly imprisoned more than 120,000 Japanese Americans simply for being of Japanese descent. This lesson plan focuses on this often overlooked chapter of U.S. history when teaching about World War II in the classroom.
Storyboard Description
This storyboard is a timeline of events relating to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WII beginning with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the issuance of Executive Order 9066 by FDR and ends with the subsequent apology and reparations issued by Ronald Regan 40 years later. This timeline includes 10 events which is the maximum allowed. Students can choose anywhere from 6-10 events to describe the injustice of Japanese American Incarceration in the United States during WWII.
Storyboard Text
- EMPIRE OF JAPAN BOMBS PEARL HARBOR
- "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy" - FDR
- JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION DURING WWII
- PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SIGNS
- Executive Order 9066
- Executive Order 9066
- Japan bombs U.S. ships and planes at the Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii, wounding or killing over 3,500 serviced men.
- President FDR issues an order authorizing the military to "exclude civilians from any area" without a trial or hearing. It targets Japanese Americans living in California, Arizona, Washington, and Oregon, and allows for their forced removal.
- FORCED REMOVAL TO PRISON CAMPS BEGINS
- Lieutenant General John DeWitt begins issuing orders which force Japanese Americans from their homes and into prison camps.
- TEN INCARCERATION "CAMPS" ARE OPENED
- "LOYALTY QUESTIONNAIRE"
- How does one "prove" their loyalty? I've lived in this country for 30 years. I've raised my family here. I owned a business until they forced us here.
- Japanese Americans are forced to 10 different incarceration facilities located in California, Idaho, Utah, Arkansas, Wyoming, Arizona, and Colorado.
- Every resident in the incarceration camps is required to complete questionnaires to prove whether they were "loyal" or "disloyal". After Pearl Harbor, all citizens of Japanese ancestry had been classified 4-C: "enemy aliens."
- Application for Leave Clearance
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- DRAFT
- U.S. DROPS ATOMIC BOMBS
- The War Department imposes the draft on Japanese American men, including those incarcerated in the camps. A few hundred resist and are brought up on federal charges and imprisoned in a federal penitentiary.
- The United States is the first country to manufacture nuclear weapons and the only country to use them in combat with the bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and on Nagasaki 3 days later. They killed over 200,000 people
- ATOMIC BOMBS HIT JAPAN 210,000 KILLED
- LAST INCARCERATION CAMP CLOSES
- The Tule Lake "Segretation Center" closes, making it the last facility to close. 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated in the 10 major facilities throughout the war.
- IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT OF 1952
- The Senate and House override President Truman's veto and vote the McCarran-Walter Act into law, removing the racist barrier against people of Asian descent from becoming citizens. It allows Japanese immigrants to become naturalized citizens
- 1952 Immigration Act
- CIVIL LIBERTIES ACT OF 1988
- "We gather here today to right a grave wrong. More than 40 years ago,... 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry living in the United States were forcibly removed from their homes and placed in makeshift internment camps ... without trial, without jury ... based solely on race."
- President Ronald Reagan signs HR 442 into law, which acknowledges that the incarceration of more than 120,000 individuals of Japanese descent was unjust and offers an apology and reparation payments of $20,000 to each person incarcerated.
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Image Attributions
- https://pixabay.com/en/closing-barbed-wire-iron-metal-1373306/ - gisoft - (License Free for Commercial Use / No Attribution Required (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0) )
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