WAR IN ASIA!

Page 1; Asia involved in European war?

Page 2; Battles of the Pacific!

Page 3; Aftermath.

Asian WWII?

On September 27, 1940, Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy, thus entering the military alliance known as the "Axis."

Although Japan mainly focused on ways to conquer China, the United States stoped supplying oil to Japan while fighting with the Axis. In retaliation Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and as a result America declared war on Japan and Germany, thus entering WWII.

Important Battles

Pearl Harbor was possibly the most important Pacific because it ended in The United

States entering the war against Japan and Germany. The turning point in the Pacific war came with the American naval victory in the Battle

of Midway in June 1942. The Japanese fleet sustained heavy losses and was turned back. In August 1942, American forces attacked the Japanese in the Solomon Islands, forcing a costly withdrawal of Japanese forces from the island of Guadalcanal in February 1943.

On August 6, 1945, the United States Air Force dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Tens of thousands of people died in the initial explosion, and many more died later from radiation exposure. Three days later, the United States dropped a bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Approximately 120,000 civilians died as a result of the two blasts.

Aftermath

The result of the Pacific war was very intense. The world know knew of the devastating power of the atomic bomb and the consequences of using it. The world will never look at a weapon of mass destruction as something needed to be used regularly, like they did before hand.

The world also now knows that a country will go to any lengths to obtain oil and other natural resources, even attacking a more powerful country.