A timeline of the events that happened during the Japanese-American Internment Camps
August 18, 1941-John Dingell suggests imprisoning Japanese-Americans February 19, 1942-President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 (Executive Order 9066 banned Japanese from the west coast states)
March 21, 1942-Manzanar, CA. Population: 10,046. Closed: November 21, 1945
May 8, 1942-Camp Poston AZ. Population: 17, 814. Closed: November 28, 1945
May 27, 1942-Camp Tule Lake, CA. Population: 18, 789. Closed: March 20, 1946
July 20, 1942-Camp Gila River, AZ. Closed: November 10, 1945
August 10, 1942-camp Minidoka, ID. Population: 9,397. Closed: October 28, 1945
August 12, 1942-Camp Heart Mountain. Population: 10,767. Closed: November 10, 1945
August 24, 1942-Camp Amache, CO. Closed: October 15, 1945
September 18, 1942-Camp Rohwer, AR. Population: 8,475. Closed: November 30, 1945
October 6, 1942-Camp Jerome, AR. Population: 8,497. Closed: June 30, 1944
December 18, 1944-The WRA announced that all the would be closed before 1945
January 2, 1945-The end of the exclusion orders
1988-Congress awarded each Japanese survivor twenty thousand dollars; an estimated 73,000 Japanese survived.