Why was World War II a watershed event in history?
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 than had died in any other disaster in recorded history.
E
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