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—— ON THIS DAY ——
AUGUST 14, 1945
Washington, D.C., USA
81 years ago
Victory over Japan Day, when the surrender of Japan was announced on August 14, 1945, brought the Second World War to an end and set off celebrations around the world.
On the evening of August 14, 1945, President Harry Truman stepped before reporters at the White House and announced that Japan had accepted the Allied terms of surrender. The Second World War, the deadliest conflict in human history, was over. Because of the difference in time zones, it was already August 15 in Japan and much of Asia, and both dates have come to be marked as Victory over Japan Day, the moment the guns finally fell silent after six years of global war.
The announcement came just days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet entry into the war against Japan, which together broke the last resistance of a nation that had refused to capitulate. The war in Europe had ended in May, but the fighting in the Pacific had ground on with terrible ferocity. Now, at last, it was finished, and an exhausted world could begin to reckon with what it had endured and lost.
—— MARQUEE EVENT ——
The formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri, the ceremony in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, at which Japan signed the instrument of surrender and the war officially ended.
The reaction was immediate and overwhelming. In cities across the United States and the Allied world, people poured into the streets in spontaneous, joyous celebration. Crowds filled New York's Times Square, ticker tape rained down, strangers embraced, and the famous image of a sailor kissing a woman amid the throng became an enduring symbol of the moment's uninhibited relief. After years of rationing, casualty lists, and fear, the sense of release was almost beyond words.
Yet the joy was shadowed by grief. The war had killed an estimated sixty million people or more worldwide, soldiers and civilians alike, including the millions murdered in the Holocaust and the vast civilian tolls of bombing and battle across Europe and Asia. For every celebration there were families who would never be whole again. The victory was total, but the cost had been almost incomprehensible.
The formal surrender was signed two weeks later, on September 2, aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, officially closing the war. The world that emerged was profoundly transformed: two superpowers stood where the old order had been, the nuclear age had begun, and the seeds of the Cold War, decolonization, and a new international order had been sown. August 14, 1945, was the day the longest and deadliest war anyone could remember finally came to an end.
—— WHY THIS MATTERS ——
It ended the deadliest conflict in human history. The Second World War killed an estimated sixty million people or more across the globe. Its conclusion closed six years of unprecedented destruction and set the world on the path to rebuilding from almost unimaginable devastation.
The celebrations captured a moment of collective release. The spontaneous eruptions of joy in cities around the world expressed the relief of populations that had endured years of war, rationing, and loss. Few moments in modern history have united so many people in a single emotion.
It marked the birth of the postwar order. From the war's end emerged two superpowers, the nuclear age, the collapse of empires, and a new international system. The world that took shape after August 1945 would define global affairs for the rest of the century.
—— THE TAKEAWAY ——
On the evening of August 14, 1945, Truman announced that Japan had surrendered, and the Second World War was over. An exhausted world poured into the streets in relief and grief alike. Sixty million or more were dead. The longest war anyone could remember had ended, and a new age had begun.
—— QUOTE OF THE DAY ——
“This is the day we have been waiting for since Pearl Harbor.”
— Harry Truman, announcing Japan's surrender, August 14, 1945
—— OUR QUIZ OF THE DAY ——
How much do you know about the end of the Second World War, Japan's surrender, the celebrations that followed, and the postwar world that emerged?
