Answer:
They wanted a strategic attack position.
Step-by-step explanation:
Context of World War ll in the Pacific:
Pearl Harbor:
7:50-10:00 AM, December 7, 1941 - Surprise attack by the Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet harbored in Hawaii destroyed 18 U.S. ships and 200 aircraft. American losses were 3000, Japanese losses less than 100. In response, the U.S. declared war on Japan and Germany, entering World War II.
Douglas MacArthur:
U.S. general. Commander of U.S. (later Allied) forces in the southwestern Pacific during World War II, he accepted Japan's surrender in 1945 and administered the ensuing Allied occupation. He was in charge of UN forces in Korea 1950-51, before being forced to relinquish command by President Truman.
Bataan Death March:
A long trek across the Philippines that American and Filipino prisoners of war were forced to make by the Japanese in 1942. The Japanese forced 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners too march 65 miles w/ little food or water. About 100,000 prisoners died or were k1lled.
Battle of Coral Sea:
May 7-8 1942 Naval battle between U.S. and Japan; Caused heavy losses on both sides; Japanese won a tactical victory because they sank US carrier Lexington; Americans claimed a strategic victory by stopping Japan's drive towards Australia
"Europe First":
Military strategy adopted by the United States that required concentrating on the defeat of Germany in North Africa and Europe while maintaining a holding action against Japan in the Pacific.
island-hopping :
U.S. WWII strategy of conquering only certain Pacific islands that were important to the Allied advance toward Japan
"code talkers':
Native American men who served in the armed forces especially the Navajos in the Pacific who made valuable contributions and transmitted radio messages in their native languages, which were incomprehensible to the Germans and the Japanese. Only code of WWII that was never broken.
Battle of Midway:
1942 World War II battle between the United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific because it marked Japan's last offensive action of the war.
Battle of Iwo Jima
On 19 February 1945, , Marines landed on this island in what was the largest all-Marine battle in history. It was also the blo00diest in Marine Corps history. The Marine Corps suffered over 23,300 casualties. The capture of this island greatly increased the air support and bombing operations against the Japanese home islands. Famous photograph of flag-raising inspired monument in Washington, D. C.
Battle of Okinawa
1945 First Japanese Home island (only 340 miles from mainland Japan) to be invaded. Island of immense strategic value. Involving over 500,000 troops and over 1,200 ships. Battle showed Japanese determination to resist invasion. This World War II victory for the Allied troops resulted in the deaths of almost all of the 100,000 Japanese defenders and the battle claimed 12,000 American lives.
atomic b0mb
Two atomic b0mbs were dropped on Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) which forced Japan to surrender and ended WWII.
kam1kaze
Japanese su1cide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships during WWII.
Manhattan Project
Code name for the U.S. effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb.
President Harry Truman
U.S. President who presided over the end of World War II (after FDR's death in April 1945) and ordered the use of atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to prevent up an estimated million deaths during ground invasion of Japan.
V-J Day
"Victory over Japan day" is the celebration of the surrender of Japan, which was initially announced on August 15, 1945 and ended World War II.