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.

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.

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.

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signing the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht, May 8, 1945. The commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe are ...

Allied intelligence confirmed that Nazi Germany was developing “vengeance” weapons, including the V-2 long-range rocket, at Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea.

President Xi Jinping will preside over the event at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Sept 3. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island.

COLOGNE, Germany — Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused on Wednesday in Cologne after the German city's biggest evacuation since the end of the war. More than 20,000 ...

Parades and memorials across Europe marking 80 years since Nazi Germany's surrender at the end of World War II. Eighty years ago today, Britons gathered around their radios. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...