Pearl Harbor
Essays

The fight for Guadalcanal was the result of the Japanese attempt to secure other valuable acquisitions in the Pacific Theater and to disrupt Allied military efforts in that Theater. Having successfully seized control of the Philippines, British Malaya, Singapore and the East Indies, the Japanese sought to protect those interests by seizure of additional islands. In addition, the Japanese sought to increasingly disrupt effective cooperation among Allied forces in the Pacific Theater by seizure of secondary islands. Guadalcanal was one of those secondarily seized islands. Aware of the importance of these islands, the Allied forces monitored Japanese movements throughout late 1941 and early 1942, though the U. S. Navy had suffered significant losses and was in some respects insufficient to successfully fight Japanese forces at that time. The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal was essentially Japan's last major attempt to control the seas surrounding Guadalcanal and/or retake control of the island itself. The battle itself and Allied victory in this battle served as a turning point in the Pacific Theater War, for several reasons. Occurring November 13 – 15, 1942, the Battle's very existence and importance weakened the Japanese overall war effort. Japanese concentration of limited forces for the Battle resulted in a decrease of needed land forces, thereby weakening Japanese war efforts elsewhere. In addition, Allied victory in the Battle succeeded in shifting Japanese efforts from aggression to defense: Japanese actions on and around Guadalcanal provided supplies to existing Japanese troops and evacuated troops rather than providing fresh troops and assertively staging attacks; also, the Japanese entirely retreated from the island in January of 1943 and the Allies were assured of utter control of the island approximately one month later. Finally, Allied victory and Japanese defeat at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal was a unique key to Allied victory in the Pacific Theater: the United States was then readily able to deliver fresh troops and supplies on Guadalcanal; Guadalcanal proved to be a stepping stone to Allied victories in the entire Solomon chain of islands; and the United States was better able to isolate and neutralize other Japanese bases in the Pacific. Consequently, the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal was just as vital a turning point as was the Battle of Midway in World War II's Pacific Theater.

This paper is about the ethics of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The decision to undertake the bombings is put into the context of the situation at the time with the war in the Pacific. Both utilitarian and deontological perspectives are utilized to come to the conclusion about the ethics of this issue.

All countries gather information regarding what other countries are doing. This information, called "intelligence," may be gathered in a variety of ways. Government analysts may study the speeches of other countries'…

Many changes took place in America from 1900 to the American entrance into World War II in 1941 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. At the turn of the century, America was still living in the Victorian Era, and in less…

Federal Reserve System more commonly known as the Federal Reserve or simply 'the Fed' functions as the Central Bank of United States. It was established by the Congress in 1913 to ensure the nation with a safer and…

Brinkley, Alan. The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People. Fourth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill 2004.

This is a three page paper. It is about American history. The paper addresses the impact that World War Two had on minorities including Mexican-Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Native Americans, and African-Americans. The paper also addresses the impact the war had on women in America. The conclusion is that the war paved the way for the civil rights movement, but that prejudices were endemic and hard to break.

Just as different forms of art, music, dance and film can act as a reflection of the needs and desires of a group of people during a specific time, so can the designs of products and industrial items of the time. Loewy is one such designer whose work has managed to wear out the sands of time, appreciated and used even today.

U.S. Security and the Terrorist Welcome Mat

Anyone who has ever seen the photograph of Marines raising an American flag on the island of Iwo Jima in 1945 recognizes that a tremendous struggle must have preceded that event, but many people don't know the details…