If you mean what caused the
conflict in the Pacific Theater during World War II, well, that's
easy.
The Japanese thought they got
cheated during World War 1, because although they fought with the
good guys (US, Britain, etc.), they gained much less territory from
the German commonwealth (colonies). They only gained what is now
North and South Korea.
So they needed more land to expand,
so they attacked the Chinese colony of Manchuria, which the League
of Nations (a sort of United Nations for after World War 1)
strongly opposed. However, Japan eventually took control of most of
eastern China and most of the Pacific Islands, which were either
unoccupied or only had primitive natives living on them.
Now early in World War II, Japan
was running out of supplies because the US and several other key
production countries cut off supplies to Japan. Germany wasn't one
of them, so the Japanese thought, "Hey, if we can make allies with
Germany, we can get all these awesome weapons!" So Germany allowed
Japan to join the Axis, along with Italy.
Now the main conflict of the
Pacific was the US-Japanese conflict. All along with Europe being
taken over by Germany and Italy, the US was like, "No! We won't
join that bloody fight!" But when the Japanese attacked Pearl
Harbor, which the US was furious of because Japan hadn't declared
war. Anyway, the US declared war, and according to the Axis'
alliance, Germany and Italy declared war on the US. So the US began
a rapid assault on the Japanese-controlled Pacific Islands to win
the war.
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