What was the strategy of island hopping, and what was its purpose?

It was to enable troops to avoid heavily guarded areas and to slowly get closer to Japan. The US had to find a way to go around Japanese defense and this was the way
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The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.