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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
Well even without the mention of the MR Literary Book Club, I could have guessed this one if I had first looked at this thread sooner. The war was the Russo-Japanese War. It is also interesting that US President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in brokering the peace agreement, one of four US Presidents to win that award.
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You see, that's why I like these quizzes. I just spent the last half hour on Wikipedia learning all about the Russo-Japanese War. Actually, pretty interesting. It was the war in which Japan emerged as a major power, and Russia lost a great deal of international prestige.