GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The War of the Pacific (Spanish: Guerra del Pacífico), also known as the Saltpeter War (Spanish: Guerra del salitre) and by multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884.

Detailed explanation-2: -Peru’s interest in the conflict stemmed from its traditional rivalry with Chile for hegemony on the Pacific coast. Also, the prosperity of the Peruvian government’s guano (fertilizer) monopoly and the thriving nitrate industry in Peru’s Tarapacá province were related to mining activities on the Bolivian coast.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Atacama Desert border dispute was a dispute between Chile and Bolivia from 1825 to 1879 for the territories of the Atacama Coast due to the different views of both countries of the territory inherited from the Spanish Empire.

Detailed explanation-4: -Moreover, it involved not just Japan and the United States but Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Canada, China, France, and the Soviet Union as well. Caught in the middle were the people of the Pacific islands, upon whose homelands and in whose waters the battles were fought.