Oceania and U.S. Military Presence
Guam
US commonwealth since Spanish-American War
Current massive U.S. troop presence
Okinawa is a military transition base from different places.
WW2
Northern Mariana Islands
North of Guam
Mariana's Trench
35,000 feet deep
7 miles
Saipan
island in the Marianas archipelago
Major U.S. Sweatshop controversies
They make things on these small islands
Hawaii
Annexed by US in 1898
Statehood in 1959
Haole
native hawaiian term for gringo-gringa
odd thing
Operation Crossroads
Bikini Atoll testing
1946 - Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
Nuclear bombs tested.
over 20 nuclear bombs were detonated on the Bikini Atoll till 1958
Bikinians still scattered, clean-up and compensation haven't occured.
Nuclear bombs contaminated marine life and plants
Nuclear radiation also affected the U.S. Servicemen
Radio Bikini (1988)
lots of color video footage
the effect on the navymen
they strapped goats to the battleships
Oceania and U.S. Military Presence
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Oceania and U.S. Military Presence