How did World War II end? In Europe, the war ended following the fall of Berlin to Soviet troops, Adolf Hitler’s suicide, and Germany’s unconditional surrender on May 8.

Seventy-five years ago this week and next, the European phase of World War II finally came to an end as Allied troops neutralized German defenses, liberated captured cities and prison camps and ...

How did World War II end? In Europe, the war ended following the fall of Berlin to Soviet troops, Adolf Hitler’s suicide, and Germany’s unconditional surrender on May 8.

World War II, the world's deadliest international conflict, left almost 80 million people dead. Here's what started it and why it ended in 1945. ... How did World War II end?

A few years ago I wrote a post about new research into the cause of Japanese surrender in World War II. Today is the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, and I thought it might be ...

Savage battles, atomic detonations, and shark attacks were just some of the events leading up to the end of World War II in August 1945. Here's a look back on the 75th anniversary of V-J Day.

The Battle of Okinawa, among the bloodiest of World War II, did not end in American victory until June 22, 1945—a month-and-a-half after the date Trump asserts marked the end of the war.

On September 2, 1945, government and military officials from the Empire of Japan signed surrender documents in a ceremony aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, formally bringing the Pacific War ...

More than 75 years ago, the six-year nightmare called World War II ended on Sept. 2, 1945. It had a death toll of 75 million people, more than three times the 20 million casualties in the First ...

Commenter Matt Steinglass takes me to task for this claim. I suppose it depends on what you mean by ending the Great Depression. The Great Depression indisputably ended during World War II, which ...