What is the significance of the battle of midway for the americans

The Battle of Midway was an aeronaval combat fought between June 4 and June 7, 1942, at the Pacific Theater during World War II. In it, US naval forces stopped the Japanese attempt to invade Midway Atoll, where the Americans had a military base.

It was fought a month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, five months after the Japanese conquest of Wake Island and six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, which marked the beginning of the conflict in the Pacific between the United States and Japan. The Japanese defeat was a serious obstacle to their expansion plans for the rest of the Pacific ocean and was a "turning point" in the whole conflict, as since this battle the United States started its offensive in the Pacific Theater. For this reason, Midway is generally considered the most important battle of the Pacific War and one of the most decisive of World War II.

        i'm fairly sure that the correct answers are 2 and 3.

        i used both my knowledge of world history and the process of elimination to obtain these answers. option 1 cannot be a possible selection because the mandate of heaven belongs to ancient chinese philosophical belief. option 4 sounds like it would benefit the region than detriment it. however, both 2 and 3 explain a potential reason for what could have contributed to the fall of the roman empire.

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