Help Answer Me This History Question Plea

nobody?

"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