The Micronesian islands are made up of diverse small island groups that range between approximately 2,300 miles southwest of Hawaii and about 1,300 miles southeast of Okinawa, Japan to the north, and to the Philippines to the south. Its beautiful islands range from flat coral atolls to mountainous volcanic islands. All of them exotic. Because of its beauty, it has attracted some 'good', some bad, and some extremely ugly colonizers over its history. Its diverse colonization history have included governments of Spain, Germany, Britain, Japan, and United States. Some 'came' since the mid 1500's and some 'left' as late as the 1980's.

To clarify, the mesmerizing Micronesian islands region of the Pacific Ocean is comprised of the following diverse cultural, linguistic, and governmental entities: Kiribati Islands archipelago, Nauru Island, Marshall Islands archipelago, Kosrae, Pohnpei Islands archipelago, Chuuk Islands archipelago, Mariana Islands archipelago, Yap Islands archipelago, and Palau archipelago. Kiribati and Nauru were the only Micronesian islands colonized by Britain, so that is why their history is not included in the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands textbooks and history. Except for Guahan, the rest of the Micronesian islands were under the United States of America since 1947, shortly after World War II.

After World War II, the Marshall Islands, Pohnpei (Ponape), (Kosrae) which was still a Pohnpeian Island then, Chuuk (Truk), Northern Mariana Islands, Yap, and Palau became a United States of America protectorate under the United Nations’ trusteeship agreement called the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI), except for Guahan (Guam). The islands remained under U.S. “protectorate-ship” until the mid 1980’s. However, in 1979, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands dissolved. Since then, the Northern Mariana Islands became a US Commonwealth. The rest of the TTPI islands and the rest of the Micronesian Islands became independent United Nation countries (i.e., The Repbulic of Kiribati, The Republic of Nauru, The Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau) except for Guahan (which still remains a U.S. military base).