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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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JordanI 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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What brought an end to the final solution?
The end of WW2 and the defeat of Germany.
Who involve in WW2?
A good seventy countries were involved in WW2, although a lot of these countries didn't come in until the middle of or towards the end of WW2. But France, Britain, Russia, Japan, Poland, Italy, and of course, Germany were involved in WW2 from the beginning to the end.
Was World War 2 the war to end all wars?
WW1 was the war to end all wars. Prior to WW2, WW1 was called, "The Great War."
The end of the war in Europe was known as what?
In WW2 it was called VE - Day.
Who created the first nuclear bomb and how was it used?
US. End WW2.
