overlook of WW2 in the Pacific

Daniel Schueller
11/19/08
Research Report
Unit 3 Lesson 13
On September 18, 1931, Japan invades Manchuria. Six years later on July 7, 1937, Japan invades main land China. America, hoping to stop Japanese aggressive acts, America boycotts all oil trade and other raw materials that Japan needed, forcing Japan to take aggressive actions. America got her answer to this on December 7, 1941. This allowed Japan to start taking British colonies in the Pacific Ocean without America interfering. The next day December 8, America declared war on Japan. A couple days later Germany declared war on America. The war in the pacific was only being.
Japan starts taking Pacific islands. Some of them are: Solomon Islands, Wake Island, Okinawa, Caroline Islands, and many more including some territories. America began to retaliate in the battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway. Both Japan and America lost lot stuff but the Japanese lost more that they could reproduce back. Japanese naval aviation began to decline and took the defense. On August 7, 1942, America begins her land offensive invading Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Japan and America fought so hard for the Guadalcanal that control of the Guadalcanal that the control switched day and night. America by day because we had good pilots in good planes: Japan by night because Japan had the early version of inferred targeting systems that swept our air defenses. This in turn gave Japan a turn to be constantly landing troops on Guadalcanal. After much lives and equipment lose, on February 7, 1943, Japan pulls out after a bitter fight. This was the end of air domination for the Japanese and the planes took the defense.
March 22, 1944, United States Marines landed on New Guinea. After securing the island America established an airfield and beachhead to begin bombing Japan from China. On June 19-20 the battle of the Philippine Sea prevented Japan from sending reinforcements to a stronghold in the Pacific.
October 20, 1944, American dropped off a massive strike force on Leyte in the Philippians and prepares to attack. 3 days later the greatest naval battle took place, the battle of the Leyte Gulf.
On February 19, 1945, 30,000 Marines landed on Iwo Jami. After 25 days hard fighting Iwo Jami was taken. This island is famous because of the picture of marines raising the flag on top of the mountain. On April 1, 1945, the strike lands on Okinawa. 83 days afterward Okinawa was official declared secure. The two atom bombs little boy and fat man are dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The emperor of Japan sings the surrender paper on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. Hearing the emperor’s surrender address remaining Japanese forces in the pacific surrender to the American forces on the islands. Japanese troops surrender on Wake Island on September 4. On September 8, MacArthur enters Tokyo to command the forces occupying Japan. On September 9, Japanese forces surrender on Korea. And it happens again on September 13, when they (Japanese forces) surrender on Burma, Thus ending the longest war in human history. And the United Nations (UN) is formed on October 24, 1945.
When is the price too high? When I think that the price is to high is when there’s no getting out of it. I can speak from experience. I have a game called AXIS & ALLIEDS and I play it a lot. Sometimes I do a dumb move and I lose the game because my troops weren’t in the right position to block the attack, or send to many troops to protect an unneeded place. I’m still trying to learn from my mistakes they (Japan) already has.
This is a picture of a torpedoed Japanese destroyer.






WORKS CITED
“Land Battles of the Pacific War.” December 2, 2008. http://www.geocities .com/guy_ conquest/land_battles/?20082.
“The History Place-World War 2 in the Pacific.” December 2, 2008. http://www. historyplace .com/unitedstates/pacificwar/timeline.htm#1945.
“The Naval Battles of the Pacific War.” December 2, 2008. http://www.geocities .com /guy_conquest/battles/?20082.

This is a picture of the height of the Japanese empire in 1942.