The Pacific War Even before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the American military chiefs had agreed on a common strategy with Great Britain: Germany, the most powerful and dangerous of the Axis powers, must be defeated first. Only enough military resources would be devoted to the Pacific to hold the Japanese west of an Alaska-Hawaii-Panama defensive line (Anderson 56). Competition for limited resources between the Allied commanders of the European and Pacific theaters was …showed first 75 words of 848 total…

…showed last 75 words of 848 total…advanced across the northern coast of New Guinea into the Philippines and Nimitz island-hopped 2,000 miles across the central Pacific from the Gilbert Islands to Okinawa (Anderson 155). Miller 4 Works Cited Anderson, Duncan. The World At War: 1939-45. New York: Reader's Digest, 1999 Donovan, Hedley. The Home Front. New Jersey: Time Life, 1978 Goralski, Robert. World War II Almanac. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1981 Youth, Brigadier Peter. The World Almanac Book of WWII. New York: World Almanac Publications, 1981