1. Another Dark Chapter in American History – The Japanese Internment

2. Executive Order # 9066 ► 110,000 Japanese Americans re-located ► No due process of the law ► Couldn’t own land, property = $ Billions Lost

4. Life in the Camps ► Unsanitary conditions, ► Surrounded by barbed wire / Guards ► Ran like a Prison ► Located in Deserts, Swamps

9. The Loyalty Oath

10. Korematsu V. United States ► Refused to leave his home ► Supreme Court Ruling = War makes Internment Constitutional ► Convicted to 3 years in Prison

11. Tule Lake, CA ► Site of Demonstrations / Riot ► Surrounded by 1200 Men with tanks ► Deaths / Injuries = Result of Demonstrations

16. The 442 nd Regimental Combat Team ► All Japanese-American Unit ► 30,000 men served ► Nicknamed “The Purple Heart Battalion” ► Most decorated unit in U.S History  10,000 Purple Hearts  52 Distinguished Service Crosses  23 Medal of Honors

20. Internment Ends December 17, 1944

21. An Apology ► Federal Investigation starting in 1980 ► Required an Official Apology ► Reparations ($20,000 per person)