President Franklin Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, authorizing the establishment of internment camps. The military begins moving about 120,000 resident Japanese and Japanese-Americans from their West Coast homes to temporary centers and internment camps. U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Japan surrenders five days after the second bomb.
Last of the internment and detention camps closes. President Reagan signs into law the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. A federal Office of Redress Administration is established to process the applications. Office of Redress Administration closes according to the deadline imposed by the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.