It would be the "Midway Atoll" that is is south of the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and this was the location of one of the most pivotal battles between the US and Japan in World War II.
The answer to that is It would be Haiti, the first Latin America colony to declare independence
The United States was forced to ask itself harsh questions about race and equality after WWII because many blacks and women had been called in a variety of ways to help their country, which did not treat them fairly back home--leading to accusations of hypocrisy.