Title World War II in the Pacific / Mark D. Roehrs and William A. Renzi

Edition Second edition Published London [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2015 ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Rising Sun; Japan Comes of Age; The Meiji Restoration; The First Sino-Japanese War; The Russo-Japanese War; America's Growing Pacific Empire; World War I; 2. The Road to Pearl Harbor; The Washington Treaty System; Victory of the Japanese Militarists; The China Incident; 3. Planning Operation Hawaii; Yamamoto's Plan; American Attitudes on the Eve of the War; The Attack on Pearl Harbor; The Results of the Attack 4. From Pearl Harbor to the Java SeaMacArthur and the Philippines; The War Spreads; The Fall of the Philippines; More Japanese Victories; A New Kind of War; 5. Coral Sea and Midway; The Doolittle Raid; The Battle of the Coral Sea and Its Consequences; Midway; 6. First Allied Land Victories; Fighting on New Guinea; Guadalcanal and Related Actions; The Japanese Are Driven from New Guinea; American Strength and the New Technology of War; The Debate over the Theaterwide American Strategy of Island Hopping; Implementing Island Hopping in the Central Pacific; 7. The Marianas and the Philippines The MarianasMacArthur Returns to the Philippines; The Battle of Leyte Gulf; The Kamikazes; Leyte and Luzon Islands; Western Prisoners of War; The Liberation of the Philippines; 8. Submarines, Firebombs, and Survival; Submarine Warfare; Life in Japan; Tokyo Rose and Japanese Wartime Propaganda; Japan Prepares for Invasion; Japanese Americans in the United States; 9. The China-Burma-India Theater; China; Burma and India; The Significance of the CBI War; 10. The Final Campaigns; Iwo Jima; Okinawa; The B-29; LeMay and Firebombing; Operation Downfall and the Atomic Bomb; 11. Allied Endgame Allied and American Postwar PlanningAmerican Military Plans for Victory; American Diplomatic Efforts for Peace; The Soviet Union Enters the Pacific War; 12. Japan Surrenders; The Emperor and the Japanese Cabinet; Peace Feelers; The Decision to Surrender; Never Look Back; Index; About the Authors Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area. World War, 1939-1945 -- United States World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan. Military campaigns Pazifikkrieg 1941-1945 Oorlogen. Tweede Wereldoorlog. SUBJECT Pacific Area -- History Subject Japan Pacific Area United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Renzi, William A., 1941- author. ISBN 9781315697987 131569798X 9781317451495 131745149X 9781317451471 1317451473 9781317451488 1317451481

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