During world war ii, the allies aimed to conquer the small islands in the pacific ocean one by one. this strategy of controlling one small island after another is called
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This strategy is called Island Hopping. After the Battle of Midway, the United States launched a counter-offensive strike known as "island-hopping," establishing a line of overlapping island bases, as well as air control. 

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