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What was the strategy of the united stATes in the struggle to reconquer the pacific islands?
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By moving island to island called island hoping
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Describe the allied strategy in the pacific?
To by pass the islands and not fight for every island
Why did Japanese plan on attacking the aleutian islands?
The Japanese planned on attacking the Aleutian Islands to combat the "island hopping" strategy that Douglas MacArthur was using in the Pacific Ocean.
The strategy of island hopping in the pacific involved allied attacks on?
Only islands that were not well defended.
The American strategy in the pacific to conquer only strategic islands was called?
Island Hopping, focused on only important islands or bypassed island.
What was the strategy used by general MacArthur and admiral Nimitz's to attack and capture key pacific islands?
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What was the US wartime strategy?
Fight Germany first while defending critical Pacific sea routes and islands.
How many islands occupied in the pacific did the Japanese catch in World War 2?
The new strategy of "Island Hopping"; and sometimes, during the war, referred to as "hitting them where they ain't", was a strategy adapted after the bloody "Battle of Tarawa", in November 1943. For further information, see website: World War 2 Time Line 1939-1945; Pacific Islands.
What was the site of the first Allie offensive in the pacific a savage struggle in the Solomon Islands that lasted from July 1942 to February 1943?
Guadalcanal.
What important strategy was used by the American forces in the Pacific?
Island hopping, also called leapfrogging, was an important military strategy in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The strategy was to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead concentrate the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands that were not well defended but capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan
What did the Allies' strategy of island hopping in the Pacific involve?
The strategy of island-hopping was to capture important islands, one by one, until Japan was in easy range of American bombers.
What was the World War 2 strategy of conquering only certain Pacific islands that were important to the Allied advance toward Japan?
island hopping
How was the island hopping strategy used to fight the Japanese?
Allied forces captured a few strategic pacific islands from the Japanese and then used those reclaimed islands as bases from which to advance the remaining targets
