Japan War

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were very successful in the Pacific. They controlled the waters from the Gilbert and Solomon Islands to Asia’s mainland, about 4500 miles by March 1942. Only the southern part of New Guinea and the Batan peninsula of Luzon in the Philippines were beyond their control. The Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Thailand, and Burma were also part of their acquisition. While destroying their enemy’s navies, the Japanese lost no …

…causing the dropping of another bomb, a few days later, on Nagasaki. The Japanese finally surrendered on August 14, 1945. World War II, was the costliest war in human life. The cost for the US was small compared to the rest of the world perhaps the most horrible of all, was the Nazi’s crimes against humanity. The threats of Germany and Japan were finally destroyed, but war itself haunted the world with new fears. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**