| Date | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4/30/45 | This leader commits suicide in a bunker beneath Berlin | Adolf Hitler | 90%
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| 5/7-8/45 | This country’s surrender ends fighting in Europe | Germany | 85%
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| 8/6/45 | The United States drops the first atom bomb on this city | Hiroshima | 85%
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| 9/2/45 | Ho Chi Minh declares which country to be an independent republic | Vietnam | 83%
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| 4/12/45 | This man takes over as the U.S. President | Harry Truman | 75%
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| 2/13-14/45 | Allied fire bomb raids created a firestorm that left this city in ruins | Dresden | 73%
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| 6/26/45 | A charter for this organization is signed by 50 countries | United Nations | 73%
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| 11/29/45 | This man becomes president of a socialist federal Yugoslavia | Josip Broz Tito | 63%
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| 11/20/45 | These trials of leading Nazi war criminals begin | Nuremberg Trials | 63%
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| 1/22/1945 | This man is elected to his fourth term as president | F. D. Roosevelt | 60%
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| 2/4-11/1945 | The three Allied leaders meet for the final time at this location | Yalta | 60%
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| 4/1/45 | American troops land on which major Japanese islands | Okinawa | 48%
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| 7/26/45 | This man wins in a shock election over Winston Churchill | Clement Attlee | 40%
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| 8/15/45 | This man broadcasts the news of Japanese surrender | Emperor Hirohito | 38%
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| 10/21/45 | This party in France gains a plurality of seats to the Assembly | Communist | 20%
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| 10/15/45 | This former president of Vichy France is executed for treason | Pierre Laval | 10%
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