Thesis :
The island hopping campaign led by General Douglas MacArthur is an amphibious drive that bypasses all of the strong Japanese islands to strike at their weakest point. This strategy was made after the the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 which caused the U.S. to get involved in the war. The idea of this strategy was to move the war faster and get to the Japanese quicker. The islands that they captured they converted them to military bases and landing strips.
The island hopping campaign was successful. The U.S was able to get close enough to launch a mainland invasion. However it was very costly, many of the U.S. soldiers died trying to capture these islands. The change this led to was the surrender of the Japanese, after the U.S. launched the atomic bomb on August 6 over Hiroshima, then followed by the bombing of Nagasaki.
The island hopping campaign led by General Douglas MacArthur is an amphibious drive that bypasses all of the strong Japanese islands to strike at their weakest point. This strategy was made after the the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 which caused the U.S. to get involved in the war. The idea of this strategy was to move the war faster and get to the Japanese quicker. The islands that they captured they converted them to military bases and landing strips.
The island hopping campaign was successful. The U.S was able to get close enough to launch a mainland invasion. However it was very costly, many of the U.S. soldiers died trying to capture these islands. The change this led to was the surrender of the Japanese, after the U.S. launched the atomic bomb on August 6 over Hiroshima, then followed by the bombing of Nagasaki.