On June 6, five allied divisions took over the coastline which helped them get inland. Although they did not reach Germany until June 25. On August 15, 1945, Japan formally surrendered. World War II was over. A new age of nuclear weapons had begun, and a cold war between the two superpowers that emerged from the war—the United States and the Soviet Union—would result in many "surrogate wars" in the decades to come, wars fought in and between nations backed by one side or the other.

End of the War

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