The document summarizes the key events and strategy of the US in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. It describes the roles of General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz in devising an island hopping strategy to push the Japanese out of crucial Pacific islands. It then outlines some of the major battles in chronological order, from the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942 to the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, where the US employed the island hopping approach to ultimately defeat Japan.