On This Day: World War II Ends (1945)

Japan signed surrender papers on the USS Missouri. The war was over.

The formal surrender ceremony on September 2, 1945 ended six years of global war that killed an estimated 70 to 85 million people, about 3% of the world's population at the time. The war reshaped every aspect of the international order: it gave rise to the United Nations, the Universal Declaration o