were was the peace treaty that ended world war 2 signed?

Answer 1

Aboard the Missouri where the Japanese unconditionally surrendered on September...3rd was it? of 1945.

Answer 2

There was no single pact signed to end the war.

In Asia, the Japanese forces signed 'unconditional' surrender terms with MacArthur, recorded with that famous picture, aboard the battleship Arizona, in Tokyo harbor. That ended the formal fighting between American and Japanese forces but some incidental fighting continued for years. Additionally the USSR did not sign a treaty for many years after....I don't recall those details.

In Europe it was even more confusing. Germany collapsed economically and militarily in the spring of 1945. Hitler was dead. The government essentially non existent. There was a military occupation set up by the victors. Treaties ending the fighting were not signed for about ten years although all organized fighting ended almost immediately upon the surrender via Doenitz in May 1945, who, in theory, was the head of the rump German armed forces and government.

Italy had surrended to the Allies in 1943 and then changed sides to fight Germany, taking many casualties in the process. The end of that formal combat situation was in 1945 also but when an actual treaty was signed, I do not know. Other Axis nations also changed sides when the end of Germany was in sight. Finland, her economy collapsing, withdrew from organized fighting in late 1944 and then declared war on Germany. So did Romania. Bulgaria never actually declared war on any Allied nation that I know of so there was never any treaty to sign. Hungary collapsed in 1945 along with Germany.

Basically a formal state of war existed between Germany and the various Allied nations until about 1954 although obviously all combat operations had ended many years previous. By that time, Stalin was dead, the German government reorganized (east and west), and the German economy stabilized and growing. POWs, both German and Japanese were just being released about this time in large numbers by the Soviets.

Although I've never seen a full reckoning I suspect some nations never actually signed a treaty ending the war with Germany - for examples, perhaps Brazil or Costa Rica.



1990
A peace treaty between the (main) Allies and Germany was signed on 12 September 1990 just before the re-unification of Germany. However, already in 1947 the Allies issued a statement to the effect that they were no longer at war with Germany.

Answer 3

September 2,1945. Japan signs the formal surrender aboard the US battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
This ended the 2nd WW.
Germany had already surrendered

Answer 4

Aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo harbour, Sept. 1945. The battleship 'Arizona' was sunk at Pearl Harbour 07Dec1941. German General Alfred Jodl had already surrendered in May 1945.

Answer 5

The German's surrendered in Rhiens, France and the Japanese surrendered on the USS Missouri in Tokoyo Bay

Answer 6

the treaty signed between the japanese and the us was on a us ship in the pacific. i think that the one in europe might have been in france? im not sure

Answer 7

The war involving the U.S? If so, the war in Europe or Pacific? We need more information.

Answer 8

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