How did World War 2 End?

World War 2 ended with the surrender of Germany to the Allies in May 1945 and the unconditional surrender in, August of that year,of Japan to America following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The official end of World War 2 came on September 2 1945, when U.S. General Douglas MacArthur accepted Japan’s formal surrender aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay.

For further reading check the following articles:

• World War I
• World War II
• Causes of World War I