State your opinion on the following statement: Japan surrendered in the Second World War.

Answer: I agree with the statement.

• Japan had joined the Axis powers and attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, bringing the USA into the war.
• After 1942 the Allies defeated Japan in many naval battles and it lost the islands it had captured.
• On 6 August 1945 the USA dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima and on 9 August on Nagasaki, causing huge loss of life; the USSR also declared war on Japan.
• Unable to continue the war, Japan surrendered unconditionally on 14–15 August 1945 (formally signed on 2 September 1945), which ended the Second World War.