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In Europe, it was the deaths of Mussollini and Hitler at the end of April, 1945, that predicated the German forces surrender on May 8, 1945.

In Japan, it was the dropping of two nuclear bombs on Japan, first on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and second on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The bombs killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki by the end of 1945. Six days after the detonation over Nagasaki, on August 15, 1945, Japan announced its surrender. nuclear bombs on japan

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For the British French and Russia it was the fall of Berlin launched by the Russians. For America it was the Nuclear attacks at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Also the Russians declared war on japan too.

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