Statistics for Year of 1945 Quiz

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Date	Hint	Answer	% Correct
4/30/45	This leader commits suicide in a bunker beneath Berlin	Adolf Hitler	89%
5/7-8/45	This country’s surrender ends fighting in Europe	Germany	86%
8/6/45	The United States drops the first atom bomb on this city	Hiroshima	86%
9/2/45	Ho Chi Minh declares which country to be an independent republic	Vietnam	80%
2/13-14/45	Allied fire bomb raids created a firestorm that left this city in ruins	Dresden	71%
4/12/45	This man takes over as the U.S. President	Harry Truman	71%
6/26/45	A charter for this organization is signed by 50 countries	United Nations	71%
11/29/45	This man becomes president of a socialist federal Yugoslavia	Josip Broz Tito	63%
11/20/45	These trials of leading Nazi war criminals begin	Nuremberg Trials	63%
1/22/1945	This man is elected to his fourth term as president	F. D. Roosevelt	60%
2/4-11/1945	The three Allied leaders meet for the final time at this location	Yalta	60%
4/1/45	American troops land on which major Japanese islands	Okinawa	46%
7/26/45	This man wins in a shock election over Winston Churchill	Clement Attlee	40%
8/15/45	This man broadcasts the news of Japanese surrender	Emperor Hirohito	34%
10/21/45	This party in France gains a plurality of seats to the Assembly	Communist	20%
10/15/45	This former president of Vichy France is executed for treason	Pierre Laval	6%