Evaluate the American Pacific campaign of World War II. Which approach do you find better suited America’s vast capabilities at this time?
After six months of constant defeat, America scored an historic victory against Japan at Midway in June 1942 and then launched its first offensive in August at Guadalcanal. After a victory there and at Buna in New Guinea in January 1943, a strategic debate evolved between those desiring an island-hopping campaign across the Central Pacific and those preferring an advance across the northern coast of New Guinea to the Philippines. The Central Pacific drive was endorsed by Pacific Fleet commander Admiral Chester Nimitz, the Philippines option by Southwest PACIFIC Area Commander General Douglas MacArthur. Evaluate the American Pacific campaign of World War II. Which approach do you find better suited America’s vast capabilities at this time?
Possible references: use attached book for one reference Berthon, Simon, and Joanna Potts. Warlords: An Extraordinary Re-Creation of World War II Through the Eyes and Minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2006. Bess, Michael. Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II. New York: A.A. Knopf, 2006. Chickering, Roger, Stig Fo¨rster, and Bernd Greiner. A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937–1945. Washington, DC: German Historical Institute, 2005. Plowright, John. The Causes, Course, and Outcomes of World War Two. England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Weinberg, Gerhard L. Hitler’s Foreign Policy: The Road to World War II, 1933–1939. New York: Enigma, 2005. World War 2, also known as the Second World War, was a war fought from 1939 to 1945 in Europe and, during much of the 1930s and 1940s, in Asia.
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