Internment+Camps

=== The U.S. Government began the interment following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec 7, 1941.At that time many Japanese descent as potentially dangerous and disloyal. The camps started on February 19, 1942. The camps where located in Arkansas, California, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming.The U.S. Government ordered 9066, several thousand J Original apanese-Americans took action of their own. While in the camps internees who wanted to serve in the military had to go through a process called swearing on. Like all soldiers, they promised to obey orders and defend their country. ===

March 1, 1946 2,806 (all at Tule Lake)
=== The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 granted a payment of 20,000 and a presidential apology to camp survivors. Then President Truman thought the country should do something for the Japaneses Americans who had been sent to the camps. A group of Japanese Americans who were unable to complete high school because of their internment were awarded honorary diplomas 60 years later. Today, the Manzanar Relocation Center that held nearly 10,000 Japanese Americans during World War II is marked by a simple Monument. ===