What was the us strategy to defeat Germany in world war 2?

Answer 1

I believe part of the strategy was to use the US Navy and Marines in the Pacific Theater and to a lesser degree the US Navy and Merchant Marines, and the US Army in the European Theater. Most of the Pacific fighting was the so-called "island hopping" technique.

Answer 2

Briefly, the US strategy was to destroy Japan's Navy, then get an airbase close enough to bomb the main islands of Japan prior to an invasion by troops.

Since this was the era before jets, propeller-driven bombers had a limited range. Aircraft from Hawaii or Midway, for example, could not reach Japan. Thus, America had to adopt a strategy of "island hopping" - conquering archipelagos closer and closer to Japan - to get close enough to strike. Thus the sequence, Midway, Micronesia, Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, then Japan.

President Truman approved the use of nuclear weapons against the Japanese because it was feared it would cost over a million soldiers' lives to take the home islands against the suicidal resistance of the civilian population.

Answer 3

The US was neutral in WWII until Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Then President FDR declared war on Japan. When Truman came to be President, the two bombs were taken to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two cities in Japan. This mostly stopped the war. The US never tried to defeat Germany.

Answer 4

Alliances with Britain and the Soviet Union.

The Manhatton Project (Atomic Bomb)

Island Hopping Strategy.

Answer 5

After the bombing on Pearl Habour, the US counter attacked by dropping 2 bombs in Hiroshima & Nagasaki. causing 200,000 people to die from injuries and radiation. And Japan surrendered.