The official end date is 2 September 1946 although fighting had stopped about two weeks earlier.
Many people died a month before the fighting ended. There was, after all, still a lot of fighting going on, and in areas where there were not battles or armies, people were still dying from murders, accidents, illness, and age. Perhaps the most famous person to die at that time was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died in April of 1945. Germany surrendered in May, ending the war in Europe. The Pacific war continued for another three months.
This is not going to be the answer you want. The Pacific Theater encompassed the entire Pacific Ocean. It has not physical beginning or ending.
ETO (European Theater of Operations) May '45; PTO (Pacific Theater of Operations) September 1945. CBI (China, Burma, India Theater of Operations came under the PTO).
Nagasaki
that we did not spend allot of money on the war itself
Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific
The official end date is 2 September 1946 although fighting had stopped about two weeks earlier.
In the South Pacific: Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands.
In Europe, towards the end of the Middle Ages in India and Arabia, several hundred years earlier.
East Galicia was the border region where fighting broke out between Poland and Ukraine at the end of the war. East Galicia is located in Central Europe.
V-J Day, that is for Victory over Japan Day also known as Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day.
World War 2 ended on Europe on 8 May 1945, when the Allies accepted the formal German surrender. That day was called VE-Day, for Victory in Europe. Although this day was a celebration, for many people the war had not ended, because fighting in Asia and the Pacific against Japan continued into August.
The German forces fighting in Italy surrendered on 2 May 1945.All German forces surrendered on 8 May 1945.Japan surrendered after the atomic bombs were dropped during the first week of August, 1945.
America fought Germany to end the reign of adolf Hitler.
The Soviet invasion of Berlin caused the end of the War in Europe and the nuclear payloads dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the conflict in the Pacific.
No, it simply meant the end of the war in Europe. In Asia, the Japanese were still fighting and would not surrender until September 8, 1945.