World War II Was a Watershed in History in Several

question 40

Multiple Choice

World War II was a watershed in history in several ways, one of them being that

• A) most countries in Western Europe were damaged heavily by the fighting and took decades to recover.
• B) even all of the war's winners felt like losers when the war was over.
• C) a war was fought in two completely different parts of the world for the first time in history.
• D) the United States agreed to a negotiated treaty with Japan after stating that there would be no negotiations.
• E) more people died in World War II, perhaps as many as 30 million, than had died in any other disaster in recorded history, and a huge number of those killed were civilians.

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