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It ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. Germany surrendered on May 7th to the Western Allies, and May 8th to the Soviet Union, 1945, about a week after Adolf Hitler had committed suicide. Japan was able to hold out for another few months and was preparing for a desperate and bloody defense in the event of an American invasion of the home islands. Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 respectively. After that the Imperial government sought the Emperor's personal authority to surrender which he granted. He made a personal radio address announcing the decision on August 15, 1945. The surrender was signed on Sept. 2, 1945 aboard the battleship A.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

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It ended because the axis powers surrendered. The US dropped the Atomic bomb on Japan which caused 66,000 causalities so they surrendered. Germany surrender because Hitler committed suicide. Italy was with Germany so they surrendered shortly after Germany.

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I am going to assume this is a question about why the U.S. used the atomic bombs to end the war versus ending it by conventional means.

The answer to that question is the alternative to using the atomic bomb was to invade the Japanese mainland. The Americans had learned in the battles before that the Japanese fought to the death and mostly did not surrender. They knew that an invasion of Japan would be a blood bath for both sides with well over a million casualties on both sides. Even after such a long and bloody war, the thought of that many more casualties was unacceptable to Harry S. Truman, who had become President after Roosevelt died on April 12,1945. Truman did not even know of the existence of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb prior to becoming President.

Fortunately for the Japanese Emporer, it only took two bombs. The U.S. had several more that would be ready in the coming months if the war had continued.

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To focus on the war in the Pacific with Japan.

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