Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ended in 1994.
Micronesia
Trust Territory of Somalia ended in 1960.
1945
japan saw the end's of WW1 as a new way to expand its pacific territory's
American Samoa and the US Virgin Islands.
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The goal of the United States was to defeat the Japanese. This meant the removal of the Japanese from many islands in the Pacific Ocean, the destruction of the Japanese Navy, and the surrender of Japan.
Claim new islands in the Pacific
To end the war without allowing Japan to keep much of the territory they had captured during the war. Japan was willing to end the war in the pacific as early as spring 1945, but only if they kept all the territory they had captured and the Allies return to Japan many of the islands the Allies had already won back. Baring that Japan was willing to fight (whether they could have is a different issue) until at least 1955 on the assumption that the "soft" US would get tired of the war and quit, allowing Japan to do anything they wanted and have anything they wanted in the pacific.
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In the South Pacific: Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands.
The Pacific Theater was fought mostly in tropical climates. Many of the islands on which the war was fought, such as the Philippines, Saipan, and Guadalcanal were covered in dense jungles or rugged and mountainous. Toward the end of the war, some fighting took place in more temperate climates on islands closer to the Japanese home islands. There was also fighting in China, a temperate climate zone, throughout the war.