The Pacific War

The War in the Pacific, commonly known as The Pacific War, took place during World War II and drew the United States into a conflict it had tried to stay out of. Beginning with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1944, the United States was engaged in warfare with the Japanese whether it wanted to be or not. In addition, sensing an opportune time and waiting until the United States base at Pearl Harbor was attacked and weakened, Nazi Germany declared war on the United States on the same day that the United States declared war on Nazi Germany -- the day after the Pearl Harbor attack. Though the United States and its allies had a long terrain battle ahead of them, the naval battle that was the Pacific War played a crucial part in the U.S involvement of World War II.

Naval fighting in the Pacific Ocean, East Asia, and the Pacific Islands was adding a great amount of damage to countries already fighting land wars against Nazi Germany – making recuperation and funding extremely difficult to come by. Allied participants involved in the Pacific World War included the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, The United States, China, Mexico, Canada and various other countries along the way. At one point, on April 1, 1942, near almost complete annihilation, the allied countries decided to band together to form the Pacific War Council. Representatives from China, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and Britain decided that the council would be held in Washington D.C., and would be head up by the United States. Though it never sought to become involved in World War II from the beginning, the United States now found itself at the center of the stage. Though many naval wars and various fighting strategies were highly effective in aiding the allied countries, the Japanese forces were finally defeated for good on August of 1945 with the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, Japan.