Pacific Theater Essay

World War II consisted of many different battlegrounds with the Pacific Theatre being one of them . This theater specifically was fought on the Pacific ocean as well as in the air and on the ground. These wars were fought with air-craft carriers and airplanes. The Pacific Theatre consisted of many different battles that were primarily fought between the United States and the Japanese (Gorman,Pacific Theatre). The two battles that stand out the most and that will be discussed in this essay are the Battle of Midway and the Battle of Okinawa. Both of these wars resulted in many casualties as well as weakened and created a lot of destruction. Nonetheless, the United States won practically every battle against Japan. The Japanese however refused

Not only was it the largest battle but it was the final battle between Japan and the United States. Japan was already very weak and all that was left was their naval force because of all the battles they have endured with the U.S. but yet they refused to surrender. The Japanese became desperate to defeat the United States, so they planned to resort to the kamikaze emissions. This is where some pilots would purposely crash into an American ship to create as much damage as possible. In the end, Japan had once again lost another battle against the U.S. but they did leave severe damage (Gorman, Pacific

The Japanese saw their emperor as a god and continued to fight in the war to protect him (Wiesner-Hanks 815). Harry Truman was left in charge of deciding what to do with Japan because the only option available to end this war was to invade Japan and that's not what he wanted to do. Truman then finds out about the Manhattan Project, which were the atomic bombs and decides to give Japan one more chance to surrender or he will drop an atomic bomb. On August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb, also known as “little boy”, was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. The bomb was dropped over the main hospital and in an instant 70k people died and those who were not close to the bomb were still affected by the radiation leaving them to become very ill and even die. Still Japan refuses to surrender despite the great amount of destruction and casualties that came out of the bombing in Hiroshima so the United States dropped their last atomic bomb in the city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945). They sent out warnings the day before to let people know that they should evacuate, in the end it resulted with less casualties but it was still a lot of collateral damage and destruction (Gorman, Pacific Theatre). Finally, Japan surrendered and the Second World War came to an end on August