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In response to India resistance, the British in 1909

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allowed wealthy Indians to elect representatives to local legislative councils

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The author of the Essay of the Inequality of the Human Races was

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Count Joseph Arthur de Gonineau

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In 1824 Thomas Stamford Raffles founded the port of

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Singapore

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The Treaty of Waitangi

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placed the Maori under British protection

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In 1906 the Indian National Congress

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joined forces with the All-India Muslim League

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Japan became a major imperial power after its victory in the

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Russo-Japanese War

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The Social Darwinists believed that

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power nations were meant to dominate over weaker societies

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The Scottish minister who, while searching for suitable missionary posts, traveled through much of central and southern Africa was

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David Livingstone

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The chief victom of the late 19th century European imperialistic expansion was

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Africa

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In 1876 Korea was forced to accept an unequal trading treaty by

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Japan

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New South Wales in Australia started as

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a settlement for convicts

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The important figure in the uprising in 1857 in India were

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disgruntled Sepoy troops

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The United States occuped Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines after its victory in

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the Spanish-American War

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The Congo Free State was established in the 1870s by

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Belgium

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Which of the following was not one of the core beliefs of Ram Mohan Roy

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the sati must remain as a symbol of Indian's long history and spiritual priority

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The Berlin Conference

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devised ground rulers for the European colonization of Africa

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The Sino-Japanese War began with a dispute over

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Korea

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In regards to imperialism, the Japanese and Americans

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proved to be just as racist as the Europeans

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The Battle of Omdurman

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opened the door for British colonial rule in Sudan

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Between 1859 and 1893 Vietnam, Cambodia, and Lao all fell under the control of

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France

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The term "great game" refers to

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the Russian push into central Asia

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Panama was supported in its uprising against Colombia by US president

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Emilio Aguinaldo led an uprising in

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the Philippines against the United States

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Under British control Ceyon became a major producer of

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tea

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In the 19th century the majority of indentured laboreres came from

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India

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The Maji Maji rebellion occurred in

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Tangayika against the German

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After the overthrow of Queen Lili'uokalani

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Hawaii

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The most important Indian reform groups, founded in 1885, was the

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Indian National Congress

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The Monroe Doctrine

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worked as a justification for US intervention in western hemispheric affairs

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The Suez Canal was essential for

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British control over India

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World War I began as a result of this event

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assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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Which of the following was not one of the Central Powers

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Italy

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Which nation below was not part of the Triple Entente

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Austria

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World War I came to an official end with the signing of the

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Treaty of Versailles

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The term used for the idea that people with the same ethnic background had the right to form sovereign states was

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self-determination

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Pan-slavism was actively promoted by

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Russia

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In the years leading up to World War I all of the following were important areas of competition and conflict between Germany and Great Britain with the exception of

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religous differences

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the desire to insured its "place in the sun" was a common concern of

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Germany

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The French Plan that called for a series of attacks into Germany was called

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Plan XVII

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The military plan that called for an invasion of France through Belgium was called

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Schlieffen Plan

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The last tsar of Russia was

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Nicholas II

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Gavrilo Princip was a member of a secret Serbian society known as the

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Black Hand

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The members of the Triple Alliance were

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Germany, Austria, and Italy

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The German offensive of 1914 was halted at

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The Somme

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The World War I poet who considered Horace's line that "It is sweet and proper to die for one's country" to be an "old lie" was

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Wilfred Owen

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The experience of Joseph Cailaux during World War I demonstrated that

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governments restricted civil liberties

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Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the new total war of World War I

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extended laissez-faire capitalism to its greatest extent

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Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that explains the expansion of World War I to Asia, Africa, and the Pacific

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the German invasion of neutral Belgium was such a profound breech of international law

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The Twenty One Demands were issued by

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Japan to China

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The Japanese entered the World War I because

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of their desire to acquire German colonies in Asia

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The English officer T.E. Lawrence worked with _____ to lead the bedouins of Arabian against the Ottoman rule

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Ibn Ali Hussain

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The February Revolution of 1917

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led to the establishment of the provisional government in Russia

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Woodrow Wilson's plan for a just and lasting peace after World War I was called the

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Fourteen Points

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The main reasons for the failure of the provisional government in Russia was

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Russia's inability to bring their involvement in World War I to an end

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The main difference between the philosophies of Marx and Lenin was

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Lenin's belief that the working class would not develop a revolutionary consciousness on its own

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The most famous motto of the Russian Revolution was

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Peace, Land, Bread

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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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ended Russian participation in World War I

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The key factor in the United States decision to enter World War I was

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Germany's presumption of unrestricted submarine warfare

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One of the major problems of the Paris Peace Negotiations that led to the Treaty of Versailles was the

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absence of Russia

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The Mandate System

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was little more than a glorified form of imperialism

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A meeting of fifty nations at San Francisco in 1945

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the United Nations Charger was signed

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World War II began with

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Japanese attacks on China

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Manchukuo was the

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Japanese puppet state in the former Manchuria

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"Asia for Asians" was the slogan of the

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Japanese

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The Japanese finally surrendered in August 1945

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after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaski

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The first large-scale defeat for the Germans forces in World War II was

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Stalingrad

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The Mukden Incident

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provided Japan with the excuse to send troops in Manchuria

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During the Battle of Okinawa

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over 100 thousand Okinawans died refusing to surrender

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The German and Italian fascist used the ___ as an excuse to intervene and gain valuable military experience.

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Spanish-American War

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The largest of the Nazi death camps was

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Auschwitz

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The key to the Allied victories in Europe and Asia was

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industrial capacity

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Operation Barbarossa was

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the German plan for an invasion of the Soviet Union

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The Japanese goal in the bombing of Pearl Harbor was

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to weaken the US and establish a defensive Japanese perimeter in the Pacific

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In the Battle of Britain the Germans hoped to defeat the English

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solely through air attacks led by the Luftwaffe

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The weakness of the League of Nations was revealed in its inablity to take any substantial action in response to the Italian invasion of

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Ethiopia

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In the Battle of Okinawa the Japanese introduced

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kamikaze pilots

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The Normandy Invasion

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crushed German resistance in Europe

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One of the biggest arguments among the Allies in World War II was

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Stalin's demand for a second front

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The Tripartite Pact brought together

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Germany, Italy, and Japan

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COMECON was

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the Soviet alternative to the Marshall Plan

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The German blitzkreig referred to

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lightening war

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NATO was designed to

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be a regional military alliance against Soviet agression

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In 1938 Germany sent troops into _____ and forced its leaders to accept the Anschluss

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Austria

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The Marshall Plan

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was a US financial plan to rebuild Europe and stop the Soviet expansion

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The European part of World War II began with the

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German invasion of Poland

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After the fall of France the only country left to fight Germany was

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Britain

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In the wake of the Munich Conference, what leader proposed that the meeting had insured "peace in our time"

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Neville Chamberlain

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The high point of appeasement was

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the Munich Conference

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The US secret weapon in the Pacific campaign was

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a code breaking operation known as Magic

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At the Wannsee Conference

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the Nazi's put in place the Final Solution

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While the Nazi-Soviet pact was on the surface a nonaggression treaty, it had secret stipulations that spelled out

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the division of Poland

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The US interventionist plan for containing communishm was known as the

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Truman Doctrine

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The US victory in the Pacific that turned the tide against the Japanese was

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Midway

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