Over 100,000 Japanese-Americans were moved to "internment" camps as a result of Executive Order 9066 (it began on February 19, 1942). They could only take with them as much as they could carry and faced cramped living situations. By January 2, 1945, they were released, but it wasn't until 1988 that those affected/their descendants received reparations (about $1.6 billion in total).