Guam

Examples of Guam in the following topics:

• Land Policy

  • Spain ceded Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines in 1898 after the Spanish-American War.
  • After World War II, the United States recognized Guam as a strategically placed island and began to construct a military base there--bring a large influx of people from various foreign populations.
  • Present-day Guam has a very mixed population: composed of the indigenous Chamorros, whites, Philippinos, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Micronesians, Vietnamese and Indians.
  • Guam is almost wholly Americanized, but previous attempts to change Guam's status as and unincorporated' U.S. territory have yet to meet with success.

• The Anti-German Crusade

  • In December 1914, the German gunboat Cormoran attempted to refuel and restock its provision at the American island territory of Guam.
  • Denied the full amount of fuel needed, the German captain optioned to remain in Guam along with the crewmen as alien detainees.
  • U.S. authorities in Guam imposed greater restrictions on the German detainees as relations between America and Germany worsened.

• The State Constitutions

  • The Territory of Guam does not have its own constitution, but operates under the Guam Organic Act of 1950 and other federal statutes.

• The Spanish-American War

  • It allowed temporary American control of Cuba, and ceded indefinite colonial authority over Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine islands from Spain.

• Nimitz in the Central Pacific

  • In the final phases in the war in the Pacific, Nimitz attacked the Mariana Islands, inflicting a decisive defeat on the Japanese fleet in the Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 19–20, 1944; a decisive naval battle of World War II that eliminated the Imperial Japanese Navy's ability to conduct large-scale carrier actions), and capturing Saipan, Guam, and Tinian.
  • In January 1945, Nimitz moved the headquarters of the Pacific Fleet forward from Pearl Harbor to Guam for the remainder of the war.

• The Spanish–American War

  • It allowed temporary American control of Cuba and, following their purchase from Spain, indefinite colonial authority over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.

• War, Empire, and an Emerging American World Power

  • Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines were ceded to the United States .

• Changing Roles for Women

  • Five Navy nurses were captured by the Japanese on the island of Guam and held as POWs for five months before being exchanged.

• The Guadalcanal Campaign

  • To further those goals, Japanese forces captured the Philippines, Thailand, Malaya, Singapore, Burma, the Dutch East Indies, Wake Island, Gilbert Islands, New Britain and Guam.

• The United States and the World

  • The only remnants of the Spanish Empire in the Western Hemisphere were Cuba, Puerto Rico, across the Pacific in the Philippines Islands, as well as the Carolina, Marshall, and Mariana Islands (including Guam) in Micronesia.