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It was the staging area for the invasion of Japan.This larger-scale invasion never occurred, as Truman elected to end the war by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan.The Americans planned to use Okinawa as a launching base for air attacks and eventually an invasion into the larger islands of Japan.
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Answer:
brought wealth, culture, and Islamic faith to West Africa
Explanation:
He thought he was going to The Indian Sea.
"Surrogate wars" also known as "proxy wars" are wars fought in a third country. The US and the Soviet Union were fighting each other in, for example, Afghanistan and Vietnam.
They preferred proxy wars, because they came without civilian victims of own population and without a distraction of the infrastructure of their own countries. In short, the two powers could compete militarily with each other without suffering the worst effects of the wars - this situation allowed them to try to defeat the other one without much risk to their own population.