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31. Tens of thousands of German civilians were killed in the “terror raid” fire-bombing of a.Munich. b.Berlin. c.Dresden. d.Cologne. 32. As the Allies began to defeat the Germans from the east and the west, a.Japan considered a sudden surrender to Great Britain. b.Mussolini signed an alliance treaty with the United States. c.they began to uncover the horrors of Nazi death camps. d.antiwar protesters began to march on Washington. 33. Which statement about the Holocaust is NOT true? a.Jews and Poles were the only people killed in Nazi death camps. b.Soviet troops came upon camps in which millions of Jews had been killed. c.As Allied troops liberated conquered areas, they could scarcely believe the horrors. d.European Jews suffered the most deaths in Nazi death camps. 34. The American strategy in the Pacific has often been called a.blitzkrieg. b.beach combing. c.island hopping. d.lightning war. 35. The bitter intensity of the war in the Pacific was magnified by a.Japan’s lack of any fighter planes. b.racial hatred and cultural differences between both sides. c.the defeat of the Americans at Leyte Gulf. d.the Americans’ inability to cut off supplies to Japan. 36. The 1945 American bombing of _________ was likely the largest mass killing of all time. a.Hiroshima b.Nagasaki c.Dresden d.Tokyo 37. At the Yalta Conference, a.Harry Truman had to replace the ailing Franklin Roosevelt. b.the Soviet Union asserted control of land it already controlled. c.Stalin refused to join the newly created United Nations. d.the Allies did not address the designation of occupation zones in war-torn Europe. 38. In the Potsdam Declaration of 1945, the United States attempted to a.demilitarize the Soviet Union. b.withdraw all of its troops from western Europe. c.inform Japan about U.S. nuclear capabilities. d.open the door for a Japanese surrender. 39. The main reason behind Harry Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb was a.American scientists wished to see if the bomb would actually work. b.U.S. intelligence knew that Japan was close to developing its own atomic bomb. c.Josef Stalin urged the United States to use the weapon to quickly end the war. d.American officials believed the Japanese would fight up to the point of annihilation. 40. Japan surrendered to the United States a.the day after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. b.because they feared the entry of the Soviet Union into the war in the Pacific. c.as a result of the destructive fire bombings of Tokyo.