Who was the allied commander in the Far East during World War 2?
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Douglas McArthur for the Army, Chester Nimitz For the Navy & Marine Corps
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World War II, also, The Second World War, or WWII, was the global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. World War II was the largest and deadliest war in history.\n\nThe war began between Germany and the Allies. Germany was later joined by Italy, Japan, and others, jointly known as the Axis. The Allies at first were made up of Poland, the British Commonwealth, France, and others. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and in December, Japan attacked the United States. China, which had been at war with Japan since the mid-1930s, also joined the Allies, as eventually did a number of other countries.\n\nItaly surrendered in September 1943, Germany in May 1945. The surrender of Japan marked the end of the war, on September 2, 1945.\n\nIt is possible that up to 62 million people died in the war; estimates vary greatly. Most were civilians who died as a result of disease, starvation, genocide, and the aerial bombing of cities. Estimates place deaths in the Soviet Union at around 23 million, while China suffered about 10 million. Poland suffered the most deaths in proportion to its population of any country, losing approximately 5.6 million out of a pre-war population of 34.8 million (16%).\n\nThe war was responsible for the re-drawing of national boundaries and the creation of new nations, the end of western colonialism, and the beginning of the Cold War. [1]\n\nAfter World War II, Europe was informally split into western and Soviet spheres of influence. Western Europe largely aligned as NATO, and Eastern Europe largely as the Warsaw pact. There was a fundamental shift in power from Western Europe and the British Empire to the new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.\n\nIn Asia, the United States' military occupation of Japan led to Japan's democratization. China's civil war continued through and after the war, resulting eventually in the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The former colonies of the European powers began their road to independence.\n\nKey alliances are formed\nOn September 1, the German invasion of Poland began World War II. Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand all declared war on Germany on September 3. Nepal, Newfoundland, Tonga, South Africa and Canada followed suit within days. On September 17, the Soviets invaded Poland from the East. The following year, the USSR annexed the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) together with parts of Romania, and attacked Finland. The German-Soviet agreement was brought to an end by the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941.\n\nThe United States of America joined the Allies following the attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. The Declaration by United Nations, on January 1, 1942, officially united 26 nations as Allies. (The Declaration also formed the basis for the United Nations.) The informal Big 3 alliance of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States emerged in the latter half of the war, and their decisions determined Allied strategy around the world.\n\n\nDates of joining Allies\n Poland: 1939, 1 September \n United Kingdom: 1939, 3 September \n Australia: 1939, 3 September \n New Zealand: 1939, 3 September \n France: 1939, 3 September \n Nepal: 1939, 4 September \n Newfoundland: 1939, 4 September \n Tonga: 1939, 4 September \n South Africa: 1939, 6 September \n Canada: 1939, 10 September \n Denmark: 1940, 9 April \n Norway: 1940, 9 April \n Belgium: 1940, 10 May \n Luxembourg: 1940, 10 May \n Netherlands: 1940, 10 May \n Free France: 1940, 18 June \n Greece: 1940, 28 October \n Kingdom of Yugoslavia: 1941, 6 April \n Soviet Union: 1941, 22 June \n Tannu Tuva: 1941, 25 June until 1944, 11 October \n Panama: 1941, 7 December \n Philippines: 1941, 7 December \n Costa Rica: 1941, 8 December \n Dominican Republic: 1941, 8 December \n El Salvador: 1941, 8 December \n Haiti: 1941, 8 December \n Honduras: 1941, 8 December \n Nicaragua: 1941, 8 December \n United
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Iwo Jima and Okinawa were two major battles in the Pacific. The landing on the beaches in Normandy,  France (D-Day) was a major battle in Europe.
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WW1 was about world leadership with japan so we are told and WW2 was about Hitler
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try here\n\nhttp://timelines.ws/20thcent/1942.HTML
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There's a pretty detailed list of events in the Pacific\ntheater for WW2 at reference #1.  However, it begins\nwith 1941.\n\nAnswers.com has a summary of the Pacific portion of WWII\nwhere they explain many events which lead up to the war\n(covering the period before 1941), followed by an \nexplicit list of events from 1941 on.\n\nThere's a history of WW2 at reference #2, and if you look\nfor the heading: "East Asia and the Pacific", it lists\nseveral specific events between 1937 and 1941 which\nwere related to the war (ie. Japan's attack on  China\non July 7, 1937; the Battle of Shanghai; the signing of\nthe Tripartite Pact on 27 September, 1940, etc).
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww2.htm\nhas all the info u need
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Tomichi Murayama (assassinated 1995). He delivered a speech showing some form of remorse over Second World War aggressions of neighbouring countries.
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That was the code name! \n\nIt was code for the Allied invasion of Europe by way of Normandy, France.
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Gypsy Rose was a stripper, Tokyo Rose was WW2 Japanese, Axis Sally was WW2 Europe. Propaganda was a big part of how the communists work. Her nicname was Seoul City \nSue...and her real name was Anna Wallace Suhr Below is some resorces..oh the one for Vietnam...Jane Fonda
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General Douglas MacArthur Commander of the United States Armed Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) told the Filipino people and the whole world, "I Shall Return" upon landing on Australian soil on March 17, 1942. this was when the Fil-Am soldiers fighting against the Japanese during world war II made their last stand at Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines. the Fil-Am forces were then transferred under the command of General Jonathan Wainwright from General Douglas MacArthur. Gen. Douglas MacArthur was ordered to leave the Philippines by President Roosevelt. he did return to the Philippines with then Philippine President Osmeña on October 20, 1944 at Leyte. \nthank God i've been listening to my history teacher.\nnote: the terrible mudslide actually occured in Southern Leyte.
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Our War strategy was called "ISLAND HOPING"...this meant we would attack and conquer one Island in the chain of Islands going towards Japan and then skip the next Island and then Conquer the next Island in the chain of Islands and so forth and so on.\nBut after conquering the Island of Okinawa, president Harry S. Truman gave the go ahead to drop first one ATOMIC BOMB, not "Nuclear" on the Japanese city of HIROSHIMA and ask the Japanese to surrender, but they refused to surrender.  So two weeks later we again dropped another ATOMIC BOMB on the city of NAGASAKI and Japan finally capitulated, thus ending World War Two.
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Harry Truman for sure. Truman was able to follow up from where FDR left off. The world was completely different between the two times because of conflict. You should be real glad your not speaking German or Japanese right now, or even Russian. Truman did that for you, you know!!!!
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Most likely what you are referring to was the exile of Chaing Kai-Shek's Nationalist forces to Formosa after fighting the communists under Mao, around 1947-1949.  You'd have to say that Chaing Kai-shek was the man who lost China.
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Look here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II:_Aleutian_Islands\n\nor here:\n\nhttp://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-C-Aleutians/
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Japan invaded China in 1936 some say that was the start of World War Two.  The war in Europe started when Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and France and England declared war on Germany.\n\nThe cause of the 2nd World War was the treaty that ended the first world war.
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Remember role in ending fascist war \n         \n\n\nCommemorative activities have been held nationwide to mark the 60th anniversary of victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and of the world war against fascism. It is understandable that China attaches great importance to the anti-fascist war. \n\nIt was the first victorious war the Chinese people fought to repel foreign aggression since the First Opium War in 1840. Triumph came through the united struggle and unprecedented sacrifice of hundreds of millions of the Chinese people, overseas Chinese included. \n\nVictory was also achieved through the concerted effort of the allied nations. China greatly appreciates the important contributions to the defeat of Japan made by the United States, Britain, the former Soviet Union and all Asia-Pacific nations, big and small, weak and strong. \n\nChina has not forgotten, and will never do, the sympathy and assistance given to it by all of the allied nations. \n\nBut the world should not overlook or forget the great contribution made by China during the war against Japanese aggression and against the fascist axis. \n\nUnfortunately, some Western histories of World War II consciously or unconsciously play down the Chinese contribution. The China theatre of operations is usually treated as a liability, rather than an asset. \n\nWhen factors contributing to the defeat of Japan are analyzed, some Western historians simply stress the US Army and Navy's offensives in the Pacific, their strategic bombing of the Japanese homeland, or even the atomic bombs, but to a lesser degree, the Soviet Far Eastern Campaign. \n\nAll of these elements are significant. But what about China? Few mention it. \n\nThe Chinese deserve commendation for their fighting that led to victory. \n\nChina's resistance against Japanese aggression lasted for 14 years - longer than any other major power in the world. The first six years following the Mukden Incident of 1931 was a period of local resistance, while the eight years after the Lugouqiao Incident of 1937 was a time of full-scale national struggle for independence and dignity. \n\nChina was the main theatre of war in the Far East with a front line spanning 5,000 kilometres, with more than 1 million square kilometres of territory behind the enemy's front line. \n\nWhen fighting was most intense, more than 5 million Chinese regular forces and 2 million guerrillas kept nearly 2 million Japanese forces plus more than 1 million Chinese puppet forces at bay. \n\nIn fact, more than two-thirds of the Japanese Army's strength was focused on the China theatre. During the initial stage of the Pacific War, 35 divisions out of a total of 51, including the strong Japanese Kwantung Army stationed in Northeast China, were pinned down. Thus Japan was able to employ only 10 or 11 divisions in the Pacific theatre, with the other five divisions stationed on Japanese islands. \n\nAs late as in 1944, large Japanese forces that were badly needed in the Pacific were still engaged in China. This was the case even by early August 1945. \n\nIn the eight years of total war, Chinese forces conducted 22 large-scale campaigns, more than 200 major operations and 200,000 battles. Japan sustained losses and casualties totalling 1.5 million in China. \n\nAt the end of the war, China accepted the surrender of 1.28 million Japanese soldiers. \n\nBy comparison, the allied American and British forces killed, wounded and captured a total of 1.25 million of the Japanese forces. \n\nChina's efforts helped the American forces fighting in the Pacific. Western military historians generally are keenly aware of this fact, but often stop short of pointing out the reason why the Japanese were unable to transfer forces from China to the Pacific. \n\nThe Chinese people persevered in carrying on the war of resistance to the very end. China played an important role in weakening Japan's forces and blocking their southward th