📅 2 September 1945
Japan signed the instrument of surrender aboard the USS Missouri. The war’s end did not resolve the political futures of Korea, China, and other Asian territories affected by Japanese empire and the...
📅 2 September 1945
The surrender formally ended the Second World War. Stalin’s Soviet Union emerged as a global power with influence in Eastern Europe and Northeast Asia, but wartime victory also consolidated a security...
📅 19 January 1946
The Allied occupation authorities established the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Like Nuremberg, it developed postwar criminal law while prosecuting only defeated powers, leaving...
📅 20 October 1944
U.S. and Filipino forces landed at Leyte, beginning a campaign to retake the Philippines from Japan. Filipino guerrillas had gathered intelligence, rescued Allied personnel, and resisted occupation...
📅 2 September 1945
Japanese representatives signed the Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri, formally ending the war. The signing established Allied occupation authority over Japan and ordered Japanese forces...
