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  2. End of World War II in Europe - Wikipedia

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    The final battles of the European theatre of World War II continued after the definitive surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies, signed by Field marshal Wilhelm Keitel on 8 May 1945 ( VE Day) in Karlshorst, Berlin. After German leader Adolf Hitler 's suicide and handing over of power to grand admiral Karl Dönitz on the last day of April 1945 ...

  3. Paris Peace Treaties, 1947 - Wikipedia

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    The Paris Peace Treaties ( French: Traités de Paris) were signed on 10 February 1947 following the end of World War II in 1945. The Paris Peace Conference lasted from 29 July until 15 October 1946. The victorious wartime Allied powers (principally the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, United States, and France) negotiated the details of peace ...

  4. Potsdam Agreement - Wikipedia

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    The "Big Three": Attlee, Truman, Stalin. The Potsdam Agreement ( German: Potsdamer Abkommen) was the agreement among three of the Allies of World War II: the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union after the war ended in Europe on 1 August 1945 and it was published the next day. A product of the Potsdam Conference, it concerned ...

  5. German Instrument of Surrender - Wikipedia

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    Third and last page of the German instrument of unconditional surrender signed in Berlin, Germany on 8 May 1945. The German Instrument of Surrender [a] was a legal document effecting the unconditional surrender of the remaining German armed forces to the Allies, which ended World War II in Europe, with the surrender taking effect at 23:01 CET ...

  6. Japanese Instrument of Surrender - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was the written agreement that formalized the surrender of the Empire of Japan, marking the end of hostilities in World War II.It was signed by representatives from the Empire of Japan and from the Allied nations: the United States of America, the Republic of China, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Union of Soviet Socialist ...

  7. Yalta Conference - Wikipedia

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    The Yalta Conference ( Russian: Ялтинская конференция, romanized : Yaltinskaya konferentsiya ), held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.

  8. The original U.S.-Japan Security Treaty had been forced on Japan by the United States as a condition of ending the U.S.-led military occupation of Japan following the end of World War II. It was signed on September 8, 1951, in tandem with the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty ending World War II in Asia, and went into effect on April 28 ...

  9. Security Treaty between the United States and Japan

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    The Security Treaty between the United States and Japan (日本国とアメリカ合衆国との間の安全保障条約, Nippon-koku to Amerika Gasshūkoku to no aida no anzen hoshō jōyaku) was a treaty signed on 8 September 1951 in San Francisco, California by representatives of the United States and Japan, in conjunction with the Treaty of San Francisco that ended World War II in Asia.