since they shot and killed filipino farmers from ambush burned their homes and stole their food, the terms used by the natives were murderers thieves and cowards. a few of them did get hacked to death by the farmers happily.
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The Japanese called it a "sphere of influence". They wanted to totally dominate Asia and the Pacific Islands.
The Galapagos Islands
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Tuvalu
Through a process called Island Hopping. Attack and hold islands that had a strategic value to the Allies and bypass and quarantine those that didn't.
The US used a strategy called "island hopping" or "leapfrogging" to fight the Japanese in the Pacific theater. Instead of trying to capture every Japanese-held island, the US selectively targeted and bypassed heavily fortified islands and focused on capturing strategically important islands that were closer to Japan. This allowed the US to gradually advance towards Japan while cutting off Japanese supply lines and isolating their forces on bypassed islands.
They were interned in internment camps.
The Pacific Campaign.
The Galapagos Islands are in Ecuadorian Province.
Oceania consists of Australia and the Pacific Islands. One of the Pacific island groups is called Micronesia
It was the Hawaiian Islands that were named the Sandwich Islands by James Cook in the 1770s.