General Douglas MacArthur's island-hopping strategy involved sending US troops island-by-island across the Pacific to dislodge Japanese forces stationed on those islands. The US lacked the means to send troops directly to Japan primarily because the Japanese controlled numerous islands across the Pacific to serve as fueling stations for ships and air stations for planes. Through island-hopping, MacArthur gradually took out those Japanese forces and converted the islands into fueling and flight stations for the United States thereby allowing the US to move closer and closer to the Japanese mainland.
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The main advantage to controlling this area was control of the Suez Canal.
This was very important because the Allies needed acess to oil from the Middle East. Modern armies had a lot of mechanized equiptment, so oil was important to keep the allied armies going.
In addition, other raw materials from Asia could be accessed via the Suez Canal.
So, the Suez Canal was important to control because it granted access to important resources.
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<span>In the 1780's John Adam served as a diplomat in Europe and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris in 1783 which officially ended the American Revolutionary War which happened between the years 1775 and 1783.</span>
