The Human Cost The Devastating Toll of World War II

By the end of 1942, the Nazi advance into the Soviet Union had stalled; it was finally reversed at the epic battle of Stalingrad in 1943. Soviet forces then ... Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany and World War II began. Over the next six years, the ... 1. World War 2 was a battle between two groups of countries – the “Allies” and the “Axis“. The major Allied Powers were Britain, France, Russia, China and the ... On May 8, 1945, World War II in Europe came to an end. As the news of Germany's surrender reached the rest of the world, joyous crowds gathered to celebrate in ... MacArthur, enacted widespread military, political, economic, and social reforms. Allied Occupation in Japan after WWII. The groundwork for the Allied occupation ... The end finally came on Sept. 2, 1945, when Japanese officials signed the surrender documents aboard the battleship USS Missouri at Tokyo Bay, ... On May 7, 1945, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allies in Reims, France, ending World War II and the Third Reich. Or did it happen on ... The unconditional surrender of the German Third Reich was signed in the early morning hours of Monday, May 7, 1945, at Supreme Headquarters, Allied ... On August 14 (August 15 in Japan, on the other side of the International Date Line), President Truman announced Japan's surrender.[2] With the ... The Most Destructive War in History ; By the end of World War II, much of Europe and Asia, and parts of Africa, lay in ruins. Combat and bombing had flattened ...