How did World War 2 finally end?

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Answer 1

2 mushroom clouds & 2 bombed out capitals (Berlin & Tokyo)

Answer 2

The first atom bomb on 6 august 1945 on hiroshima and the second on 8 august 1945 on nagasaki and the war came to an end.

Answer 3

In Europe, the Allies invaded Normandy to open a second front to defeat Germany and they also bombed many German cities.

In Asia, Japan surrendered after the two atomic bombs were dropped.

Answer 4

The world war finally ended in early 1945 when the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.

Answer 5

The US scared the piss out of the rest of the world by dropping a-bombs on Japan. Were you not awake in history class?

Answer 6

when Adolf Hitler committed suicide in the bunker... but actually, when the German Military Empire collapsed slowly along the borders of Germany, with the help of psychological impact of the two atomic bomb in Japan.

Answer 7

Germany and Japan surrender.

Answer 8

Two atomic bombs dropped (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) - and the unspoken threat of more to come.

Answer 9

The war in Germany ended on May 8, 1945. But the war in the Pacific with Japan was still ragging on. The allies were in the final planning stage for a November invasion of the Japanese Island when the first Atomic Bomb wiped out over half of the city of Hiroshima. Three days later Nagasaki became the second city to be destroyed by another Atomic Bomb. When we, at the airport in Spring Valley, California, heard of the bombings we all cried out for more. Bomb those islands and those barbarians off the face of the earth. However, these bombings finally convinced the Japanese military leaders to surrender on August 14, 1945.
The End of World War II
In that August 6th raid over half of the city of Hiroshima was destroyed and 80,000 people were killed. If we had not used the Atomic Bomb to end the war quickly the B-29 incendiary bombing of Japan would have continued resulting in the total destruction of the people of Japan. Contrast the Hiroshima A-bomb with the March 9-10 B-29, 1945 incendiary bombing of Tokyo.

"On the night of March 9-10, he [Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay] launched a massive mission -- 334 B-29s -- to drop incendiary bombs on Tokyo. It was the most destructive raid in history. The official casualty report listed 83,793 dead [Thousands more than the Hiroshima A-bomb] and 40,918 wounded. Sixteen square miles of Tokyo were destroyed that night."2

There has been much "intellectual" debate, for years after, and today, about the justification for the atomic bombs. Intellectual debate yes, military debate no. If the war with Japan were allowed to continue millions of additional lives, both Japanese and Allies would have been lost. Bombing missions like the one on Tokyo were planed to continue until Japan surrendered. Would the, so-called, "intellectuals" be willing to explain to the mothers of those dead why their sons had to die while we possessed the means to end the war immediately. And, how many of those so-called "intellectuals" would be here to criticize if the war had continued and including their ancestors in the casualty lists. The quoted article below illustrates the true facts, and should be required reading, instead of the claptrap spread around by "the intellectuals."

By Bruce Lee
Excerpts from the Wall Street Journal

The men read the Magic Summary
Japan was to be defended by 30 million men
Estimated US casualty
Japan's secret negotiation with Russia
Potsdam Declaration
Japan declared to ignore Potsdam Declaration
Japan negotiated with Russia to carve up Asia
Two bombs dropped, Japan surrendered
Japanese government propaganda
The bombs saved millions of Japanese
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"Why Truman Bombed Hiroshima
The Magic summaries (and the Ultra intercepts of German communications) were one of the key reasons that the Allies were able to foil the Axis plans of world domination. Only six Americans were authorized to read these intercepts. Of these six men, only one was elected. That was President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he did not see, nor did he read, everything. The other policy-making recipients of Magic were:
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, the chief of naval operations (the last being Adm. E.J. King) and Gen. George Marshall, the Army chief of staff. The most important of these decision makers was Gen. Marshall.
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Marshall also knew prior to the February 1945 Yalta Conference that Russia would break its nonaggression pact with Japan and attack Manchuria about 90 days after the surrender of Germany (V-E Day). The Magic Summaries documented the shift of Soviet troops by rail from Europe to the Far East for this purpose. Because of a major intelligence failure, Marshall also believed that the Japanese had maintained their troop strength In Manchuria and were capable to resisting a Soviet Attack. But Tokyo had secretly brought back many of its troops from Manchuria to defend the home islands of Japan from an American invasion, leaving Manchuria and Korea easy prey for the Russians.
Marshall also knew from the Magic decrypts that the Japanese home islands were to be defended from invasion and occupation by 2.3 million troops, another four million Army and Navy employees and a newly created armed militia numbering 25 million. These defenders were sworn to fight to the death, which so many Japanese troops had done in battles throughout the Pacific.

To effectively invade and occupy Japan, American strategists foresaw two invasions, scheduled for November 1945 and March 1946. The first invasion, on the island of Kyushu would employ some 770,000 American troops. The follow-up invasion on the plains of Tokyo, leading to the forced occupation of Japan, called for two million American troops.

This brings us to the heart of the Enola Gay argument made by revisionist historians who claim

(1) that President Truman either invented after the fact high invasion casualty estimates to provide moral and political justification for the use of atomic weapons; or
(2) that Truman was never told about potentially high invasion casualties; or
(3) that archival documentation for pre-invasion casualty estimates does not exist; or
(4) that the pre-invasion estimates were minuscule.

But according to documents I have uncovered, a conference to discuss pre-invasion casualties was held at the White House on June 18, 1945, between President Truman and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. From the Pacific, Gen. Douglas MacArthur submitted rather optimistic casualty estimates. This caused Adm. William D. Leahy, Truman's military advisor, to take charge of the session. Based on the experience at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Leahy predicted that in an invasion of Japan, 30% to 35% of U.S. soldiers would be killed or wounded during the first 30 days. Truman obviously understood what Leahy said. The president remarked that the invasion would create another Okinawa from one end of Japan to the other. The Joint Chiefs of Staff agreed.

Answer 10

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It ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. Germany surredered on May 8, 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 depsarate 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. The surrender was signed on Sept. 2, 1945 aboard the battleship U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Michael Montagne

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The war ended in Europe with the unconditional surrender by Germany on May 7, 1945 and then the German surrender to the Soviets on May 8, 1945. Germany was defeated by the British and Americans in the south and west and by the Russians in the east. Japan also unconditionally surrendered to the U.S. on September 2,1945 after two atomic bombs were dropped by the U.S.A. on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan in August 1945.

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With 2 REALLY big explosions. :-)

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Nothing major - we just melted two of their largest industrial cities. I'm surprised that they even noticed such a little thing.

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American forces had been steadily gaining ground in the Pacific since late 1942. By 1945 we were able to begin using large fleets of bombers operating out of China and Islands in the Pacific to destroy utterly their cities. On top of that our navy had cut them off from the supplies of raw materials, oil, rubber, iron, etc. that they had been importing and that they needed to produce weapons and ammunition. In addition, Japan imported a great deal of its food. Those imports were also cut off. Thus by mid 1945 Japan was unable to maintain indistrial production at anywhere near the level needed to supply their armies, their cities were subject to raids by over a thousand bombers at a time aginst which they had no defense and their population was in danger of starvation. Then, on August 6 and August 9 the United States dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hirshima and Nagasaki. That finally convinced the Japanese government that they had no choice but to surrender. Michael Montagne

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Vincent-WW2 ended by the dropping of the A bombs on Japan during August 1945. I was involved in the last battle against the Japanese on the Island of Okinawa located only 300 miles from Japan. We invaded the Island on Easter Sunday Apr.1st.1945 and the Island was declared secured the last week of June 1945. During the fighting we suffered 32,000 U.S. casualties with over 14,000 killed in action. During this same period we killed 118,000 Japanese defenders. It was a terrible experience but would have been nothing compared to our having to invade Japan itself. In fact should this have been necessary I am strongly convinced I would not have survived. The reason the Japanese KIA was so high is because they refused to be taken prisoner. Make no mistake about it. The Japanese soldier had been in military training since childhood and they were good well trained soldiers. They were also barbarians who killed American POWs & butchered the Chineese people including women & children.

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The Allied forces landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day which was the beginning of the end for the Axis forces in Europe. After that, it was a slow march across Europe and into Germany and eventually Hitler committed suicide to avoid arrest and conviction for his War Crimes.

Japan refused to surrender when the other Axis powers had been defeated. Japan desperately wanted to control the islands of the Pacific. They truly believed that they were racially superior to the mixed races of Europe, Australia, the United States and Canada. After the Japanese military had been defeated and chased back to Japan, the Emperor still refused to surrender. Japan believed that they could hold out and continue to fight in order to gain better terms of surrender. They truly believed that the Allied forces would not be able to tolerate the losses that we would encounter if we invaded Japan. Our military was bombing many of the Japanese industrial areas in an effort to weaken the Japanese. The bombing caused entire cities to burn, killing hundreds of thousands in a single bombing raid. Still the Emperor refused to surrender. Finally, President Truman was given a choice of either sending in an invasion force or using the newly developed Atomic Bomb to let the Japanese know that we could destroy them if they refused to surrender. The Japanese people were prepared to fight to the death, every man, woman and child, at the beaches in an attempt to stop the invasion. They still believed that they had the right to the islands of the pacific, and that if they were invaded and subsequent occupation forced the destruction of their military, they would not be able to try to control the Pacific again.

The bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and still the Emperor refused to surrender. Finally, after the 2nd Atomic Bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, the Emperor decided that it would be best to stop the destruction of his people.

Germany & Japan surrender!

World War 2 ended with the unconditonal surrender of the Axis Powers.