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Japan is 4,108 miles from Hawaii. The US needed bases of operation to attack Japan. The only way to do that was to capture islands and move closer to Japan so they could supply the armies, use airpower and naval power to invade Japan. It was thought that the US would invade Japan and the plans for war revolved around that objective. It was not till very late in the war that the US had an alternative in the Atomic bomb.
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∙ 13y agoIsland hopping attacking worked because the Allied Forces were able to repel the Japanese from Australia all the way back to Japan. The closer they got to Japan the more area and time they had to deplete the Japanese Naval vessels, oil and supplies to fight the war. They were able to decrease the size of the Japanese Army that way while the US and Allied Forces were able to INCREASE their Army and Marine Forces and supplies.
Not only was Japans supply line cut off the closer the Allied Forces came to the main Island of Japan they were also able to cut off the communication lines in Southwest Asia. So the Japanese were crippled by not being able to have full communication.
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How do you use island hopping in a sentence?
Island hopping is moving around from island to island. For example, The United States military practiced island-hopping during WWII in the war in the Pacific.
Why did the United States adopt a poliy of island- hopping in the pacific?
It was quick, simple, and effective, since the Japanese were spread thinly across the pacific they could almost never keep up with American attacks.
What island did Spain give the United States in 1898?
Cuba
What was America's strategy to win the pacific war?
Answerl. The United States put an embargo on the shipment of oil and steel to Japan.2. 60% of Japan's oil and most of her steel came from the U.S. That was now shut off.3. The U.S. wanted Japan to pull all of her troops and war materials out of Japanese occupied and controlled French IndoChina, China and Manchuria.4.Japan -- controlling the above three areas and numerous islands (no)in the Pacific -- was a dominent power in the world (no)5. Japan felt that, if she gave in to the United States by pulling back to her mainland island and came to depend on the U.S. for imports (Oil steel, etc.), she (Japan) would become a third world nation and her economy would be in shambles.
What happened to the United States after the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
The US made its come-back by using the island-hopping tactic, moving from one island to another, utterly destroying the ones of no strategic importance, and bombarding ones that are of strategic importance, then landing troops on it and capturing it. They continued the island-hopping until Iwo Jima, and that's when the decision was made to drop the atomic bombs. In Europe, the Allies were greatly comforted when they heard that the "Yankees" (American troops) were coming to the warfront. After the US joined the Allies, progress was made and in the duration of 4 years the war had ended, making the USA a superpower in the process.
How do you use island hopping in a sentence?
Island hopping is moving around from island to island. For example, The United States military practiced island-hopping during WWII in the war in the Pacific.
To fight Japanese the United States used the strategy of?
island hopping
What was the strategy of the united stATes in the struggle to reconquer the pacific islands?
By moving island to island called island hoping
What strategy did the United states use in fighting the Japanese in the pacific?
island hopping
The united stats used the strategy island hopping to?
to get closer to japan
Who used Island Hopping?
Douglas MacArthur used island hopping along with Chester Nimitz used this tactic during world war two. They did this to avoid fighting the Japanese for every island in the pacific and only took the island critical for the mission. The US would then starve and bomb the other islands until they surrendered or bypassed them altogether. This was an efective stragety and probably won the war for the United States
What military strategy was used in the pacific?
the strategy of "island hopping" was used by the United States in the Pacific theater of world war two. Thought of by Douglas MacArthur, "island hopping" was a strategy that used the technique of jumping from island to island on a chain to control the chain as a whole vs attacking all the islands at once. This helped establish air base's on islands in order to conduct further operations and expand supply lines to more islands. Actually, both Nimitz and MacArthur based their Island Hopping on Plan Orange created by a joint war college of the War Department and Navy Department for action in the Western Pacific in the 1930s.
What country claimed Rhode Island?
Rhode Island is in the United States of America
Why did the United States adopt a poliy of island- hopping in the pacific?
It was quick, simple, and effective, since the Japanese were spread thinly across the pacific they could almost never keep up with American attacks.
What is the largest island in the United States?
Hawaii is the largest island in the United States with 4,021 square miles [10,414 square kilometers] , but is not the largest island in the world.
What is the name of the largest Ilsand in the United States?
the largest island in the united states is Hawaii
What strategy was most successful in the pacific theater?
The United states used a stradegy called island hopping to defeat the Japanese. The Japanese used a stradegy where every soldier would kill as many of the enemy as he can to inflict massive causilities on the invading forces and make them sign a peace treaty that will allow Japan to keep most of the land it had captured during the war. Since the U.S.A. won the war, I would say island hoping was better.
