General Douglas McArthur.
the US didn't surrender....
Victory in the Pacific is a WW II term. It is the name given to the day on which WW II ended with the surrender of Japan.
In the US, WW II began with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and ended with the Japanese surrender in 1945. It was a quick, four year war. Subsequent wars have been much longer in duration.
September 2, 1945, when Japan signed the formal declaration of surrender, ending WW 2.
During WW II Japan was an empire ruled by an emperor, and was therefore known as Imperial Japan. Sometimes the term Nippon is used instead of Japan. The people of Japan were still known as the Japanese, even during WW II.
No, it was not WW II.
The announcement that Japan had accepted the Allied ultimatum came on August 15, 1945 (Japan time), and the documents of surrender were signed on September 2, 1945, aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
No Japanese Americans at all were convicted of Espionage. Even so, when they left camps, they faced discrimination and rasicsm.
Harry S. Truman did not end any war. However, he was the President of the United States during the end of World War II and made the decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ultimately leading to Japan's surrender and the end of the war.
See: WWII memorabilia & collectibles.
WW II was largely the result of lingering resentment by Germany about the outcome of WW I. You could describe it in sports terminology as a rematch.
WW II ended in Europe through the unconditional surrender of Germany to the Allied forces on May 7, 1945. In the Pacific it ended August 15, 1945 through the unconditional surrender of Japan.