United States and Allied Submarine Successes in the Pacific and Far East During World War II, by Alden, John D., & McDonald, Craig R.

This chapter deals with the concept of Hawaiʻi as a racial paradise. In the 1920s and 1930s, intellectuals began to tout the islands' ethnically diverse composition—including the indigenous population, white settler colonists, and imported labor from Asia and other locales—as a Pacific melting pot free of the mainland's social taboos on intermingling. After World War II, the association of Hawaiʻi with racial harmony and tolerance received unprecedented national attention as Americans heatedly debated the question of whether or not the territory, annexed to the United States in 1898, should become a state. Statehood enthusiasts tagged the islands' majority Asian population, with its demonstrated capability of assimilation, as a forceful rationale for admission.

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Introduction

War in the American Pacific and East Asia, 1941-1972 ◽

10.5810/kentucky/9780813176550.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

David J Ulbrich

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

East Asia ◽

Culture Media ◽

The United States ◽

Future Research ◽

Pacific Basin ◽

Military Operations ◽

World War ◽

The Pacific

The introduction to this anthology connects a diverse collection of essays that examine the 1940s as the critical decade in the United States’ ascendance in the Pacific Rim. Following the end of World War II, the United States assumed the hegemonic role in the region when Japan’s defeat created military and political vacuums in the region. It is in this context that this anthology stands not only as a précis of current scholarship but also as a prospectus for future research. The contributors’ chapters eschew the traditional focus on military operations that has dominated the historiography of 1940s in the Pacific Basin and East Asia. Instead, the contributors venture into areas of race, gender, technology, culture, media, diplomacy, and institutions, all of which add nuance and clarity to the existing literature of World War II and the early Cold War.

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Michael Cullen Green . Black Yanks in the Pacific: Race in the Making of American Military Empire after World War II . (The United States in the World.) Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2010. Pp. x, 207. $35.00.

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr.117.2.550 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 117 (2) ◽

pp. 550-551

Author(s):

Robert F. Jefferson

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

The United States ◽

World War ◽

American Military ◽

Cornell University ◽

The Pacific ◽

The World

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Okinawa: The Last Battle. By Roy E. Appleman, James M. Burns, Russell A. Gugeler, and John Stevens. [United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific] (Washington: Historical Division, Department of the Army. 1948. Pp. xxii, 529. $6.00.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/55.2.395 ◽

1950 ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

United States Army ◽

World War ◽

The Pacific ◽

Department Of The Army ◽

Division Department

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8. The Two-Ocean Navy

American Naval History: A Very Short Introduction ◽

10.1093/actrade/9780199394760.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 80-96

Author(s):

Craig L. Symonds

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

American History ◽

The United States ◽

World War ◽

Central Pacific ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

The U.S

Europe went back to war in 1939 and on July 19 1940, the U.S. Congress passed the Two-Ocean Navy Act, the largest naval appropriation in American history, which expanded the U.S. Navy by more than seventy per cent in preparation for the United States entry into the war. ‘The two-ocean navy: the U.S. Navy in World War II (1939–1945)’ outlines the key battles fought by the U.S. Navy: in the Pacific from 1941–43, in the Mediterranean from 1943–44, the Central Pacific drive from 1943–44, the D-Day landings in 1944, and the ferocious battles with the Japanese at Iwo Jima and Okinawa that ended the war.

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The Eagle has Landed: Groping for a Korean Role in the Pacific War

Journal of American-East Asian Relations ◽

10.1163/18765610-02101001 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 5-33

Author(s):

Mark E. Caprio

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

The United States ◽

Pacific War ◽

World War ◽

The Pacific ◽

Southern Korea ◽

History Of ◽

Military Support ◽

First Americans

The first Americans to arrive in Korea following Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II brought with them a quartet of Korean soldiers that U.S. officials had recruited for the Eagle Project, the most ambitious American effort to use Koreans in the Pacific War that punctuated a long wartime effort to enlist Allied diplomatic and military support for overseas Koreans. In response, U.S. officials had insisted that Korean exiles in the United States unify their efforts. This condition referenced squabbles among Korean groups in general, with the most transparent being those between Syngman Rhee and Haan Kilsoo. While Korean combatants on the Asian mainland managed to gain some U.S. support for their cause, recognition of their potential came too late in the war for them to help liberate their country. Ultimately, the United States turned to the Japanese and Japanese-trained Koreans to assist in this occupation. Reviewing the history of both Korean lobbying and U.S. response to it provides the opportunity to ask whether better handling of the Korean issue during World War II could have provided U.S. occupation forces with better circumstances to prepare southern Korea for a swift, and unified, independence.

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