On 15 August 1945, following the dropping of two atomic bombs, the Japanese government announced its surrender to the Allied forces. The formal surrender was signed on 2nd September. Months earlier, Germany had signed its own unconditional surrender. Going back 27 years before, we often think of the end of the First World War as being on the 11 November 1918 but this was an armistice. Technically that war ended in June 1919, with the Treaty of Versailles, when the Allies dict