Use the quotation to answer the question. "however, rather than take every single island in the area, [he] decided on what became known as 'island-hopping.' this tactic meant that the americans took the larger more important islands captured by the japanese in the pacific (such as iwo jima and okinawa) and left the smaller ones to 'wither on the vine. ' " who implemented the world war ii military strategy described in this text? president franklin roosevelt president harry truman general dwight eisenhower general douglas macarthur

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Use the quotation to answer the question. "however, rather than take every single island in the area, [he] decided on what became known as 'island-hopping.' this tactic meant that the americans took the larger more important islands captured by the japanese in the pacific (such as iwo jima and okinawa) and left the smaller ones to 'wither on the vine. ' " who implemented the world war ii military strategy described in this text? president franklin roosevelt president harry truman general dwight eisenhower general douglas macarthur

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General Douglas MacArthur used this method of "island-hopping," also called leapfrogging in his strategy to regain the Philippines from Japanese occupation.