What caused the Battle of Midway?

Answer 1

Japan was going to invade the island of Midway as a way of setting a trap to destroy US naval forces as they came to defend it. This backfired as was stated below USA cracked their naval code and knew about their plans. All USA had to do is find them and they did. The begining of the battle was not going good for USA even with all this knowledge. If it wasn't for the timely attack of the USA dive bombers the USA could have possibly been defeated. The leader of the dive bomber squad found the Jap carriers on a hunch. US torpedo plans had found the Japan fleet first and attacked but they where destroyed without inflicting any damage.

Answer

Japan was trying to control the Pacific. Allied forces recognized Midway as an important staging area for defending the Pacific and realized that not only did they need to remove that staging area from Japan's control, they also needed to have the staging area for Allied efforts.

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Midway was a carefully laid trap by the American forces. They succeeded in breaking the Japanese codes. Both sides thought they would be able to wipe out the other side. The US in this case won through a series of fortunate events. It was the turning point of the war in the Pacific.