United States Pacific Fleet

Naval Base Pearl Safe place (for boats) in Hawaii, using bombers, torpedo bombers and midget submarines. On December 8, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his "Fame (for something bad) Speech" to American people (who lawfully live in a country, state, etc.), informing them that this happened even though the US was in the middle of talks to keep peace with Japan. That same day, with government-related approval, America entered into World War II. On the southern end of Oahu, Pearl Safe…

the Pacific” as well as the most decisive victory in the history of the United States Navy (USN). The United States had been planning for a war with Japan for years, but when the time came, Japan was second in priority to Germany. The Japanese leadership of Admiral Yamamoto, Commander of Japanese Combined Fleet, and Vice Admiral Nagumo, commanding officer of the carriers, wanted to take charge in the Pacific by putting all of their power into taking a small island in the Pacific. The United…

perception of the war changed. The United States knew that an attack was going to happen in the Pacific but they didn’t know where or when until it happened on December 7, 1941. Japanese planes bombed the naval base in Hawaii and flew into ships. Naval warfare in the pacific was constant and sometimes would go back and forth. German submarines sank hundreds of allied ships during the Battle of the Atlantic. In May 1942 the American Navy turned away a Japanese fleet that was going to attack…

Most of the military analyst insisted that the state of situation in Japan was already not good and that it was unnecessary to bomb Japan as they would have surrendered after some few days to come. According to Henry L. Stimson the then Secretary of War, the decision that was made to drop atomic bomb…

The Battle of Santa Cruz Islands started on October 26, 1942. The Battle of Santa Cruz Islands took place in between the American and the Japanese. The United States military planners were determined to keep the supply lines open with Australia; at the same time the Japanese were just as determined to cut them. In late October, the Japanese decide to launch a major offensive. Their goal was to gain control of Henderson Airfield on Guadalcanal, eliminate the 10,000 American troops on the island…

aimed to limit European expansion in the Americas after the United States had accepted the responsibility of being a protector of the newly independent states. In 1823, when news stirred of Spain and France restoring their combined power to bring war upon the new nations, it appalled the British who felt all the work statesmen had done to get France out of the New World would be undone. The British wanted the support of the United States, but Adams felt instead of standing behind the British war…

from both sides who led this battle. The proposal will be divided into the following five sections: Introduction The Battle of the Coral Sea was one of the greatest naval battles ever experienced along the Australian shores. In this battle, the United States of America fought with Australian forces against the Japanese forces. This was because the Japanese wanted to invade the Australian shores and take over the Port Moresby. The Battle of the Coral Sea took place from 4th May in 1942 to the…

few decades following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the Imperial Japan transformed from a vulnerable country humiliated by unequal treaties, to a political, economic, and military power parallel to the Western countries. Since the Sea of Japan and Pacific Ocean isolated the Japanese Archipelago from rest of the world, only the development of superior naval technology could enable Japan to project power abroad. When Commodore Matthew C. Perry steered steam-powered warships into the Bay of Edo in…

surrender of Nazi Germany on the 7th of May, and the final dissolution of the Third Reich came on the 23rd day of May. As glorious a victory as it was for the Allied Forces in the west, this did not mean the end of the war, as the fighting in the Pacific theatre against the Japanese Empire was as intense as ever. The plan developed by the Allies to bring an end to the Second World War was a full-scale land invasion of Japan, known as “Operation Downfall”. Downfall itself consisted of two…

and diplomats throughout the world about military plans. The article declares that the American cryptanalysts eventually figured out weaker parts of the code which expanded to the full code. The work continues to explain that this allowed the United States of America to know every military message Japan would send out to the consulates (Perloff). So the American government had access to Japan’s important upcoming dates. After the code was translated into English, it was given to the President…