Japanese reluctance to surrender would prove a major challenge for the United States in the Pacific Theater. It meant every rock in the water the US gained would be gained with tremendous amounts of American and Japanese bloodshed alike. Ultimately not wanting to go through the trouble of invading the entirety of the Japanese Home Islands would be the reasoning behind dropping the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, rather than fight for years and years and leave millions more dead. Other than that in the opening phases of the war following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the US Pacific Fleet was heavily damaged, and while ultimately the US Pacific fleet would get back on its feet, it gave Japan an early advantage allowing them to invade the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies.
The main goal of the coastal African kingdoms was to obtain guns and other products from Europe.
Answer: Option D
<u>Explanation:</u>
- The African kingdoms were aware of the availability of the technology of guns and other weapons that the Europeans had.
- They believed that having advanced weapons like guns would easily allow them to establish control over the interiors of the continent.
- And, would ultimately help them expand their kingdoms. The export of guns from Europe to Africa was counted as a major contemporary trade.
The statement that describes the Great Depression the best is D
<span>B. white miners settled on Indian land in Colorado. - The miners were coming for the Pike Peak's Gold Rush and the US government did nothing to stop them from settling on the land.
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The docking of America and Solviet Spacecraft.
