1) Battle of Midway, 1942 - US carriers ambushed the Japanese carrier force sent to attack Midway, sinking four carriers (the offensive backbone of the naval force sent) and losing only one (three US carriers were involved). It crippled the IJN and forced the Japanese onto the defensive.
2) Battle of Stalingrad, 1942 - 43 - The German Sixth Army was encircled and trapped by the Red Army and eventually surrendered when it was near starvation and almost out of ammunition. It destroyed the central spearhead of Hitler's offensive and pushed the Germans onto the defensive.
3) Second battle of El-Alamein, late 1942 - General Montgomery decisively defeated the Germans (led by the "Desert Fox", Erwin Rommel) at El-Alamein sealing the fate of the Afrika Corps and Italian ambitions for North Africa in retreat.
Accurate, objective, can be shown to be true are characteristics of facts.
1-accurate
2-objective
5-can be shown to be true
<u>Explanation:</u>
A piece of information becomes fact when it is true and something that is real and can be proved. It is objective reality which the researchers can prove its existence. Some phenomenon which has been experienced and tried by someone to be shown true.
A fact is authentic and can be relied upon. Facts have different areas like, scientific fact, educational fact, entertainment fact, cosmological fact etc. Therefore, three characteristics of facts will be Accurate, Objective, and can be shown to be true.
Answer:
Modernizing and industrializing
Explanation:
The Qing Dynasty helped China become weaker than the British by not "Modernizing and industrialized."
The above statement is true because, towards the eventual fall of the Quin Dynasty in 1912, the empire was full of corrupt practices, bad administration, shortage of food, etc., all of which was due to the inability to modernize and industrialize the country by the leaders. This led to civil unrest and a series of protests that ultimately weaken China.
Water power, iron, rivers, harbors
