WW2

World War 2 begin September 1, 1939 and officially ended December 31, 1946. The Japanese gave up on August 15, 1945 signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on September 2, 1945, "aboard the USS Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay. The Japanese troops in China then surrendered to the Chinese on September 9, 1945. But it did not yet end the war although, Japan and the Soviet Union never signed a peace agreement. In the last days of the war, the Soviet Union occupied the southern Kuril Islands, an area claimed by the Soviets and still contested by Japan. On August 14th 1945 after the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan August 6th and 9th."