What is the difference between the European theater of World War 2 and the pacific theater of World War 2?

Answer 1

European (or Western) Theater is the part of WWII that was fought in Europe with Nazis (Germans), some Italians, and some battles in Africa. Pacific Theater is the part of the WWII that was fought between USA and Japan. There were British, Aussies, Dutch, Indians and Chinese who also fought the Japanese. The Pacific was divided into the South Pacific and the North Pacific, another front was CBI (China Burma India).

Answer 2

During World War II, the Pacific and European Theaters differed in a number of important respects. First of all, the primary aggressor in the Pacific was Japan, while in Europe it was Germany (along with Italy). Further, the Pacific included many land battles, which dominated the European Theater; however, the dominant aspect of the Pacific Theater was both naval- and air-conflict, with land campaigns failing or succeeding depending on intimately associated conflicts between naval forces and their associated air units.

Answer 3

The pacific theater of operations in WWII was a much more savage fighting theater than the European. Thousands of crack Japanese troops fought to the death on the small Pacific island that the United States invaded using island hoping. The European theater was mainly a traditional war fought on a wide front and was fought in Europe instead of the Pacific.

Answer 4

Fighting in the European theater in WWII was not as savage as in the Pacific. The European theater was called "The War without Hate." In some cases soldiers from both sides would occupy a city and find themselves sleeping in the same house. In the morning the soldiers would go to their respective lines and continue the fight. There was very little fighting at night.The Pacific theater, however, had much hate. Crack Japanese troops would fight to the death to take as many of the invaders with them as they could. The Japanese would sneek behind enemy lines at night and slight throughts, throw gernades in foxholes, strap bombs to themselves and run into a tank, or exploding ammunition dumps. Both fronts were deadly but the Pacific theater was its own nightmare.

Answer 5

European theater :Land

European Continental theater action over predominately large land areas stretching into North Africa in parts. Large armored formations including tanks and artillery of all types. Relatively easy terrain except during heavy snow and rains. Many collateral's in terms of civilian populations.

European theater :Sea

Primarily one off enemy engagements between capital ships of major warring nations.U-boat action against merchantman was a large component including eventual anti submarine measures against them.Also sinking of naval and merchant assets by aircraft took place between Allied and Axis powers. Area of operation was primarily the Atlantic and Arctic seas especially the convoys carrying supplies to Britain and the then Soviet Union.

European theater : Air

Primarily dogfights, ground strafing in both Eastern and Western regions and heavy massed formation bombings mainly by the allied powers - over Germany and other axis states to a lesser extent.

Pacific theater : Land

Japanese forces tied down mainly in China etc.

Islands occupied over East and South East Asia as they also fell to the Japanese invasion. The Japanese were extremely well entrenched and difficult to rout out.Fighting to regain the islands was ferociously fought by both Allied and Japanese forces. Allied forces were primarily Marine divisions raised for this purpose supported by sea and air power.

Pacific theater : Sea

Majority of engagements against the Japanese were by Allied Naval units including large carrier borne aircraft formations by both sides. The actions by the Allied Naval component was the primary deciding factor of the war in the Pacific including regaining the islands and driving back the Japanese toward their home land. Naval air and sea power by the Allies played a crucial role.

Air and Sea battles were relatively short, violent ,brutal and savagely vicious compared to the European theater where the battles were fought on more conventional and classic styles.

Pacific theater : Air

Primarily Naval air power. was a huge deciding factor in tilting the wars favor towards the Allies.

Japanese airman were being depleted and replaced by poorly trained pilots.

Allied training of airman resulted in superior fliers!

Kamikaze suicide air attacks were a way employed by the Japanese to inflict as much damage as they could.

The dropping of the Atomic bomb by the Allies on Japan brought a final end to the second world war and saved lives which would have been lost in defeating Japan.

Conclusion : The Pacific theater was the more difficult even though Germany possessed better weaponry and men as the Japanese were ferociously tenacious fighters and would simply stop at nothing.

Answer 6

Europe was a land war; the Pacific was a naval war (note-Pacific Ocean).

Answer 7

They both had the word theatre in them