Which strategic concept does the path on the map best illustrate?
- A
Reliance on Soviet ground forces to defeat Japan.
- B
A direct frontal assault on the Japanese home islands beginning in 1942.
- C
Total naval blockade of Japan with no troop landings.
- Dcheck_circle
Island-hopping: bypassing strongly fortified Japanese positions to seize bases closer to the Japanese home islands.
Explanation
Generals MacArthur and Nimitz used island-hopping after Midway (1942) to seize strategic islands while bypassing others, progressing toward Iwo Jima and Okinawa to enable bombing of Japan, culminating in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.