The Final Chapter How the Allied Forces Defeated Nazi Germany

On May 8, 1945 World War II ended in Europe. This piece was produced by the United News Company in 1945. Courtesy of the National Archives ... The final battles of the European theatre of World War II continued after the definitive surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies. 30 Jan 1933. Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany ; 1931. Japanese invasion of Manchuria ; 1938. German Anschluss with Austria ; 30 SEPT 1938. Treaty of ... Adolf Hitler's suicide in his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945, didn't immediately end World War II in Europe. Though the German capital had ... Europe's physical battles of World War II ended 75 years ago with German surrender on May 7, 1945. But that doesn't mean the fighting is over. It was the continuation of a tradition dating to the era of Communist dictator Joseph Stalin, who dismissed the Nazi surrender to the Western ... Japan agrees to surrender unconditionally. 2 September: The instrument of surrender is signed by representatives of the Allied and Japanese governments onboard ... On 1 May 1945 the BBC announced Hitler's suicide. At 7pm the following evening programmes were interrupted with news that the Germans had surrendered in Italy. The European war ended in Germany with the surrender of all forces by Hitler's successor, Admiral Doenitz. He actually surrendered twice. The end finally came on Sept. 2, 1945, when Japanese officials signed the surrender documents aboard the battleship USS Missouri at Tokyo Bay, ...