what started the Japanese’s fight against the United States. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 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…
the world. The most immediate development of the war was the reshaping of United States territory. The preliminary peace agreement between the United States and Spain took place right after the war (677). Spain agreed to hand over Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States. The United States emerged into a strong nation by conquering large portion of Spain’s land. Another contributor to the war was confidence in their military force. The aftermath of the Spanish-American…
four months in total. After the U.S. won the war they acquired new overseas territories in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Before the war, President McKinley was not interested in having an overseas territories but after they won the war and received Guam, Puerto Rico and, the Philippines, McKinley started to express interest in imperial expansion.…
Saipan is a small Island in the Pacific Ocean with about 65,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. This is the least known territories of the United States with diverse cultures, year-round tropical weather, historical significance as well as natural beauty. As a point of fact, Saipan has fantastic facts as well as unique features since it is about 3 hours from Japan, 5 hours from Shanghai, China, 4 hours from Korea, 15 hours from…
In the article “Arguments against euthanasia” by Guam Hagatna “Clearly, committing an act of suicide, or assisting someone to do so, is against the will of God and is therefore sinful” (Guam Hagatna). What Guam is saying is that life is a gift from God and only he can take it away. Euthansia it’s seem like an inhuman way to die, death is part of the life processes which God has…
be quick to fill. On February 6, 1899, the Treaty of Paris was approved by the United States Congress and was signed by McKinley the next day; the Treaty of Paris resulted in the United States gaining possession of the islands of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam, and the Philippines…
Richard Ceka Geo 201 Mariana Trench According to Encyclopedia Britannica Mariana Trench is the deepest place on the Earth. It is located in the Western Pacific Ocean, Eastern of the Mariana Islands. Its coordinates are 11"21' North latitude and 142" 12' East longitude. Its depth is equal to 11033 meters (36201 feet) the length is 2542km (1580 miles long), and the width of the trench is 69km (43miles) wide. The length is five times greater than the length of the Grand Canyon. According to the…
poetry “The White Man’s Burden” by Kipling’s Hymn, who believes that the U.S. should shoulder the “burden” of an empire and cultivate the savages along with the expansion. And this is the same reason for the U.S. to send military army to Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba, and the Philippines, claiming the Americans were helping them gain independence from…
The sinking of the USS Indianapolis happen during World War II. The USS Indianapolis was launched on November 7, 1931. It was 610 feet and 4 inches long. It was 9,600 tons. What had contributed to the weight was eight white Forster boilers, 4 Parsons geared turbines, about 70 guns, and 3 SC-2 Curtiss Seahawk airplanes. On April 1940 the Indianapolis move from west coast to Hawaii with the rest of the Pacific Fleet. On February 1942 the Indianapolis participated in raid on Bougainville in Solomon…
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…