"1st Question:
I know the american were drawn into WWII because the
japanese attack on pearl harbour. how exactly did United State defeated
them tho?"
Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
The Pacific was witness to some of the fiercest fighting in the war.
Hundreds of books have been written about the Pacific War. I recommend, first, Ronald Spector's excellent
Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan.
As in Europe, American air power played a significant role.
Deciphering the Japanese codes helped at Midway, where naval aviators
sank four Japanese carriers and turned the tide of war to a U.S.
offensive operation. Control of the skies was essential for successful
amphibious landings. Unlike Europe, the Pacific was a true
three-dimension war - land, air, and sea. The Battle of Leyte
Gulf was the largest naval engagement in history.
The vastly superior industrial capacity of the U.S. was also a key to victory.
Conventional bombings of the Japanese home islands, particularly
incendiary raids, killed far more people and caused more destruction
than did the two atomic bombs. The fire bomb raid on Tokyo of March
9-10 , 1945, killed at least 100,000, more than the atomic bomb did in
Nagasaki, and destroyed 16 square miles of that city.
As well, after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the
Soviet Union launched a surprise attack of 1.5 million men against
Japanese occupied Manchuria.
It was the weight of all these factors that decided Emperor Hirohito to stop the carnage.
JT
Edited by jacobtowne - 25-Oct-2006 at 12:57