Essays on Guadalcanal

The battles of the two coalitions during World War II deployed on the space of the four basis theaters of war: the Pacific, the Mediterranean, the West European and the Eastern ones, with the Pacific playing the role of the primary battleground that witnessed the great sea battles between the Japanese and Allies. Apart from Nazi Germany, Military Japan also had expansionist plans in its strategy during WWII. As long as in 1931 it made an attempt to occupy Manchuria and North China, as well as the invasion into the depth of China in 1937 (Japanese Conquest). The expansion ...

Already in 1937, the US government was dissatisfied with the actions of the Japanese in Manchuria, as well as with the policy of Germany and Italy. Being a major supplier of oil and steel to Japan, the United States warned the Japanese government about the possibility of termination of the supply in case the Japanese army will not leave China In order to exclude the possibility of military aggression by Japan, Roosevelt throws part of the American fleet in the Hawaiian Islands located on a military base - Pearl Harbor, which is now the headquarters of the US Pacific ...

Slide 1: Mission: The two U.S. objectives for the Guadalcanal campaign were to deny Japan the use of the Solomon Islands which would threaten the allied supply routes between the U.S. and Australia & New Zealand, and to control Guadalcanal & Tulagi in the Solomon Islands as bases, which were elements in future allied plans to neutralize the Japanese base at New Britain. Slide 2: Enemy: To try once again to retake Henderson Airfield, Japan sent 7,000 troops plus equipment and 3 warship groups comprising in total between 18 and 20 ships, including a battleship, heavy & light cruisers and destroyers. ...