Guadalcanal Campaign

Examples of Guadalcanal Campaign in the following topics:

• The Guadalcanal Campaign

  • The Guadalcanal campaign of 1942-43 became a crucial victory by Allied forces in the Pacific.
  • The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and code-named Operation Watchtower, was a military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II.
  • The Allies also intended to use Guadalcanal and Tulagi as bases to support a campaign to eventually capture or neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain.
  • The Guadalcanal campaign was a significant strategic combined arms victory by Allied forces over the Japanese in the Pacific theater.
  • Guadalcanal is located in the lower right center of the map.

• The Allied Push

  • After the 1942-43 Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific theater, the Allies initiated several operations against Japan in the Pacific.
  • By May 1943, sizeable German submarine losses forced a temporary halt of the German Atlantic naval campaign.

• Coral Sea and Midway

  • After Midway, and the exhausting attrition of the Solomon Islands campaign, Japan's shipbuilding and pilot training programs were unable to keep pace in replacing their losses while the U.S. steadily increased its output in both areas.
  • Although the Japanese continued to try to secure more territory, and the U.S. did not move from a state of naval parity to one of supremacy until after several more months of hard combat, Midway allowed the Allies to switch to the strategic initiative, paving the way for the landings on Guadalcanal and the prolonged attrition of the Solomon Islands campaign.

• MacArthur's Leapfrogging

  • The protracted battle for Guadalcanal—followed by the unopposed seizure of the Russell Islands (Operation Cleanslate) on February 21, 1943—resulted in Japanese attempts to reinforce the area by sea.
  • The disastrous losses suffered by the Japanese prompted Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to initiate I Go (Operation 'I'), a series of air attacks against Allied airfields and shipping at both Guadalcanal and New Guinea, which ultimately resulted in Yamamoto's death.
  • Three months later, airmen reported no signs of enemy activity in the Admiralty Islands and MacArthur ordered an amphibious landing there, commencing the Admiralty Islands campaign.
  • The campaign showed the effectiveness of a strategy which avoided major concentrations of enemy forces and instead aimed at severing the Japanese lines of supply and communication.
  • The Philippines Campaign included the Battle of Leyte Gulf - the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history.

• Japanese Aggression

  • Building on the hard won victory in Shanghai, the Japanese army captured the Chinese nationalist capital city of Nanjing (Nanking) and Northern Shanxi by the end of 1937, in campaigns involving approximately 350,000 Japanese soldiers and considerably more Chinese.
  • They also consolidated their lines of supply through capturing key islands of the Pacific, including Guadalcanal.
  • Further defeats by the Allies at Guadalcanal in September 1942 and New Guinea in 1943 put the Empire of Japan on the defensive for the remainder of the war.

• The Election of 1960

  • Both Kennedy and Nixon drew large and enthusiastic crowds throughout the campaign.
  • However, Nixon was plagued by bad luck throughout the fall campaign.
  • In addition, Nixon had to cease campaigning for two weeks early in the campaign to recover from a knee injury.
  • The key turning point of the campaign were the four Kennedy-Nixon debates.
  • The turning point in the 1960 campaign was the debates.

• The Election of 1972

  • In 1972, Nixon beat George McGovern in a landslide reelection victory due to negative views on McGovern's campaign.
  • McGovern ran an anti-war campaign, but was confined by his outsider status and limited support from his own party.
  • In the general election campaign, McGovern called for the immediate exit of the Vietnam War.
  • Nixon's campaign included an aggressive policy of keeping tabs on perceived enemies.
  • On the 1968 campaign trail, Richard Nixon flashes his famous “V for Victory” gesture (a).

• War Aims and Strategy

  • However, In October 1942, Roosevelt was advised that military resources were desperately needed at Guadalcanal to prevent its being overrun by the Japanese.

• The North Africa Campaign

  • The North African Campaign of World War II took place in North Africa from June 10th, 1940 to May 13th, 1943.
  • It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts (Western Desert Campaign or Desert War), in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch), and Tunisia (Tunisia Campaign).
  • The Western Desert Campaign, also known as the Desert War, was the initial stage of the North African Campaign.
  • After the British defeats in the Balkan Campaign, the Western Desert Campaign had become more important to British strategy.
  • Identify the effectiveness of the Western Desert Campaign, Operation Torch, and the Tunisia Campaign.

• Korea, Communism, and the 1952 Election

  • The Eisenhower campaign was one of the first presidential campaigns to make a major, concerted effort to win the female vote.
  • The Eisenhower campaign made extensive use of female campaign workers.
  • His campaign slogan, "I Like Ike," was one of the most popular in American history.
  • Eisenhower maintained a comfortable lead in the polls throughout most of the campaign.
  • Eisenhower presidential campaign in Baltimore, Maryland, September 1952, featuring the popular campaign slogan: "I Like Ike".