1. The Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II 1942-1945

2. Japanese Immigration to the U.S.
Issei-A legal Japanese Immigrant to the U.S. that arrived before the National Origins Act of 1924 excluded the Japanese from immigrating to the U.S.
Nisei-A child of Japanese immigrants that was born, educated and lived in the U.S. Nisei were U.S. citizens because they were born in the U.S.

3. Pearl Harbor Attacked by Japan

4. Pearl Harbor-Quotes
I had gone to the hospital on Sunday morning because it was my usual thing to get up, have breakfast, and go to the hospital for rounds. As soon as I came home, one of my friends, Mr. Taniguchi, called. He said, "Did you hear the radio?" I said, "No, I hadn't heard the radio because I just got back from the hospital." He said, "Did you know that Japan has raided and bombed Pearl Harbor?" I said "NO." And he said, "Turn your radio on." So we turned the radio on. I got so darn scared after that I didn't know whether to leave the house or not.
Roy K. Tanaka, M.D.

5. Pearl Harbor-Quotes
December 7, 1941 was a cloudy day, and even for San Diego it was chilly. I was in my hot house in our backyard busying myself with the camellias I grew as a hobby. About noon my oldest son burst through the door. "Papa," he told me with wide eyes and short gasps of breath, "Papa, Papa, Japan has bombed Hawaii."
Josuke Sakamoto

6. Pearl Harbor-Quotes
Yesterday, Sunday, December 7th, A day which will live in infamy. The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
President Franklin Roosevelt

7. Executive Order 9066
President Roosevelt, encouraged by officials at all levels of the federal government, authorized the internment of tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, dated February 19, 1942, gave the military broad powers to ban any citizen from a fifty- to sixty-mile-wide coastal area stretching from Washington state to California and extending inland into southern Arizona. The order also authorized transporting these citizens to assembly centers hastily set up and governed by the military in California, Arizona, Washington state, and Oregon.

8. Executive Order 9066
Sign posted ordering the evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast

9. Map of the Areas to be Evacuated
Executive Order 9066
Map of the Areas to be Evacuated

10. Families were forced to sell businesses…

11. …and pack up…

12. …their possessions…

13. …in order to relocate…

14. …to the internment camps.

15. In most camps construction had to be completed upon arrival.

16. In addition, the camps were very crowded…

17. …and were home to both young and old.

18. Children had to attend school in cramped quarters…
Life in the Camps
Children had to attend school in cramped quarters…

19. …and had a difficult time…
Life in the Camps
…and had a difficult time…

20. …finding a place to play.
Life in the Camps
…finding a place to play.

21. Japanese Americans were forced to work certain jobs…
Life in the Camps
Japanese Americans were forced to work certain jobs…

22. …and the camps were always monitored by guards from the U.S. Army.
Life in the Camps
…and the camps were always monitored by guards from the U.S. Army.

23. Life in the Camps
Japanese Americans were allowed to associate with each other at times…

24. Life in the Camps
…and plant and farm their victory gardens, which supplemented their diets at the camp.

25. Life in the Camps
In some areas cold temperatures and snow had to be dealt with by people that were not used to a similar climate.

26. Loyal to the U.S. Government
Many Japanese Americans served in the United States military during World War II, while their family members were interned in a camp.

27. Barrack Life
Life in the barracks was uncomfortable as entire families lived in a single room that was sparsely furnished with cots and makeshift dressers…

28. …and that offered no privacy for young married couples.
Barrack Life
…and that offered no privacy for young married couples.

29. Suits against the U.S. Government
Hirabayashi v. United States – the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided that a curfew order affecting only Japanese Americans was constitutional.
Korematsu v. United States – the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the order calling for the relocation of Japanese Americans as constitutional. (Ronald Reagan would sign a law in 1988 which provided some restitution for people of Japanese ancestry who were interned during World War II)

30. The End of the Internment Camps
As the war ended, the internment camps were shut down.
Also as the war was coming to an end, the Supreme Court ruled that if Japanese Americans could demonstrate loyalty then they had to be released from an internment camp, however, by that time all camps had been almost completely shut down.

31. The End of the Internment Camps

32. The End of the Internment Camps

33. Internment after World War II
President Gerald Ford issued Proclamation 4417 in 1976, which apologized to Japanese Americans for interment during World War II.
Ronald Reagan would sign a law in 1988 which provided some restitution for people of Japanese ancestry who were interned during World War II