Battle of the Philippine Sea

Spanish American war involved Spain, America, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. There were many reasons for this war, one of them was Cuba's unsuccessful attempt to revolt over Spain. The inhumane ways and methods the Spanish used to suppress the Cubans swayed many Americans to go to war with Spain. Also America was looking to expand its boundaries to outside the continental borders. War was waged on the Spanish on April 25, 1898. This was after the sinking of the Battleship Maine in…

events occurred: The attack on Pearl Harbor The Battle of Coral Sea The Battle of Midway The Battle of Guadalcanal The Battle of Leyte Gulf The Battle of Iwo Jima And, The Battle of Okinawa Matt: First up, the attack on Pearl Harbor.…

December 7, 1941, but they also attacked "the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, Malaya, Thailand, Shanghai and Midway" (www.historyplace.com). In the following days, Japan invaded Thailand, the Philippines and Burma, as well as take Guam. The Japanese and American forces used air raids to attack and invade islands in the pacific, much like the Germans and Americans fought in Europe. As one of the first battles in the Pacific Theatre, The Battle of Coral Sea really showed the Allies what they were…

The Battle of Midway was one of the battles leading up to WW2. In 1942, the Battle of Midway one of the most influential U.S. victories against Japan during World War II. During the four days of battle, the U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircrafts. The only battle that the U.S fleet lost was The Battle of Yorktown. In six months of offensives prior to Midway, Japanese had triumphed in lands throughout the Pacific. These lands include Malaysia, Singapore,…

lands for exploration. Among the economic elites, began to prosper the idea that the only solution to the crisis was the expansion of markets overseas. At the same time, a captain in the US Navy, Alfred Thayer Mahan, published his book The Influence of Sea Power on History. The work, which had among its most enthusiastic readers the future president Theodore Roosevelt, proposed the installation of American naval bases in the Caribbean and the Pacific and the opening of a connection between the…

Soon after leaving Vietnam, the boat’s engine died. Everybody got into a panic, and thereby, their battle began. This is not a battle of armed forces and weapons, but of resilience and suffering, and the enemies are the thirst and hunger. Drifting in sea without enough food and water, many people could not resist the death. Recalling the haunting past, one women sitting next to Trinh had died in her arms. Lives of boat people…

Saipan was an island near the Philippines that were guarded by both the army and the navy of Japan. To start the attack, as usual, the American navy fired artillery onto the island to try and clear as much as they can and make the lives of the ground troops easier to capture the island…

control over Guam and Puerto Rico. The United States also purchased the Philippines Islands from Spain for twenty million dollars. All of these events led to the United States becoming a major powerhouse and let the rest of the world know the authority that they had. The major effects that stemmed from the war were that Cuba gained their independence from Spain, the United States gained Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, and the Spanish Empire collapsed. Cuba had been fighting for its…

town called Porto, a city with a harbor that was full of seafarers; this may have been where Magellan found his passion for the sea and exploration. Although Magellan was not always an explorer, he…

current state of the Philippines, one of them being a democratic country. Employing democratic ideals to the government scheme, as expounded by the Oxford English Dictionary, means practicing fair and equal approach to society and having election of government officials by eligible citizens of the country. PRE-COLONIALISM Origins According to Henry O. Beyer, an expert anthropologist, the Dawn Man, Negritos, Indones, and Malays were the primitive people to inhabit the Philippine archipelago. The…