WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE PACIFIC OCEAN THEATER OF WWII
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To establish military bases for further attacks
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To protect shipping routes of oil carriers
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To promote cultural assimilation in the East
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Decrease shipping & trading cost
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Detailed explanation-1: -7D-Why did the United States seize Pacific islands during World War II? To establish military bases for use in further attacks. 7D-Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!
Detailed explanation-2: -By seizing a strategic airfield site on the island, the United States halted Japanese efforts to disrupt supply routes to Australia and New Zealand.
Detailed explanation-3: -Over the next two and a half years, US forces captured the Gilbert Islands (Tarawa and Makin), the Marshall Islands (Kwajalein and Eniwetok), the Mariana Islands (Saipan, Guam, and Tinian), Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. With each island taken from the Japanese, the United States moved closer to Japan.
Detailed explanation-4: -What were the reasons behind the U.S. assault on the island of Guadalcanal? to force Japan into fighting a two-front war and gain strategic positions from which to attack.