Post-Break Refresher: Naval Warfare in the Pacific.

Attention Students!

I know it's been a while since we've had class, so I'd like to refresh your brains with what we learned the week prior to break. Our main focus was WWII, specifically: America's involvement in the Pacific. This fighting was against the Japanese, who sought recourses in the pacific islands. America wouldn't have any of that. After the successful, yet disputably unsuccessful, attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan gave America a huge reason to join the second World War. In case you were wondering, there is not a lot of ground for cars and soldiers between the west coast of America and Japan. In fact, its almost all water. Because of this, the two countries relied completely on battle at sea. Fortunately, the invention of the Aircraft Carrier allowed for more destructive warfare. These enormous vessels were floating runways equipped with state of the art aircraft, guns, technology, and men. The country with the greatest fleet of aircraft carriers would win the wars in the pacific. The battle of Midway was arguably one of the most devastating loses for the Japanese. Japan had plans to lure America's navy into a trap, and at the same time occupy the island of Mid-Way for its recourses. America saw right through this. An ambush on Japans aircraft carriers would leave Japan's train of thought in ruins. Losing almost all of their aircraft carriers, 300 planes, and 2500 men and officers, Japan was unable to capture Mid-Way and unable to maintain the upper hand on America for the rest of the war. I hope this helps you refresh your mind on what we talked about, this was just a small battle of a larger war that occurred in the Pacific.