1. Japanese Internment Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

2. 1869 First Japanese settle in Sacramento, California to help construct the railroad

4. 1870 Citizenship given to African Americans, but not to Japanese or Chinese Americans

6. 1886 Japanese government allows citizens to permanently move to other countries

8. 1911 America does not allow Japanese to become natural citizens

9. 1913 Japanese are not allowed to own land in California

10. 1924 All immigration from Japan stops due to the Immigration Act

11. 1939 Germany declares war on Poland officially beginning World War II

13. 1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawaii

15. 1942 Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 giving the War Department the right to evacuate Japanese Americans into camps

17. 1942 cont. Manzanar Camp opens in Owens Valley, CA

18. Remembering Manzanar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac19C-rfMp8

19. 1942 cont. 110,000 Japanese Americans are in camps. Evacuation completed

21. 1944 U.S. Supreme Court rules that loyal citizens cannot be held in camps against their will

22. 1945 Roosevelt dies from a stroke and Harry Truman takes office

24. 1945 cont. America drops two atomic bombs on Japan

26. 1945 cont. Hitler commits suicide after realizing Germany is losing the war

28. 1945 cont. Japan surrenders, ending World War II

30. 1945 cont. Manzanar camp officially closes

31. 1952 Japanese finally given the right to be natural citizens.

32. 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.