1945 - End of World War II | The 20th century | World history | Khan Academy

1945 marks the end of World War II. V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) is May 8th 1945. War doesn't end in the Pacific until August of 1945 with the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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[vamsic]

Wow I didn't even know khan academy does history videos I thought it was only math and science but these videos are great!

[jumbocraft]

End of WWII, beginning of The cold war

[Joeltron]

I greatly enjoyed this video series! Please do more videos on major historic events!!!

[voicegirl]

77 years ago today it ended. God Bless all the soldiers who died in this war and those that survived and are no longer here. Thank you all.

[Belgarathe]

Please do more of these videos. Maybe history of 500? Roman Empire? Or even something obscure?

[benbonarigo]

An excellent review of material that was obscured in my high-school days during the 50's.

[UltimateBargains]

The Japanese were well aware of nuclear weapon potential of fissionable uranium. The Japanese ran out of time in their development of nuclear weapons when the United States nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[rblinson]

One of the reasons we took Iwo Jima was for an airbase to land damaged B-29s and launch escorts for the bombers.

All the Purple Hearts we have in inventory were produced in anticipation of an invasion of mainland Japan. We made 500 THOUSAND.

The Manhattan project was so secretive, Truman didn't even know until he was sworn in after Roosevelt died.

[nateauld]

I'd love to see a parallel series to this one focusing on the political intrigue and motivations for specifically the larger moves made.  I'm particularly interested in hearing the politics of Russia and the United States surrounding the Pacific theatre.

[amiraboodi]

Thank you very much for teaching history. I learned many things and I'm really eager to learn and study in more depth and detail how these great war was going on.

[kevjtnbtmglr]

Events in northern Europe are documented on youtube upload called "Scandinavia  -  the forgotten front", it includes Finland.

[demokkkrat]

Thanks so much for helping with Maths and History! Khan Academy is best learning website to my opinion

[farooqiabdurraqeeb]

Thank u soo much sir..u really helped me to understand this bloody n complex ww2. .thanks a lot

[acefromyoutube]

Love the content.. hate that I feel like I’m listening to DJ Vlad talk about WW2

[Jimtx]

Please make a playlist for this series

[till]

This was quite a good explanation of the ending of world war 2!

[JK-tnxp]

Okinawa was supposed to be the staging area and jumping off point for the invasion of japan had the Japanese not surrendered after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This would have been the main logistical staging base as well for this operation. This is because the other nearest American bases were well over 1500 miles away at guam and then midway. Iwo Jima really only had an airfield at the time and wasn't really a major naval base for the americans.

[EllochkasG]

Even though V-Day is May 8th in Europe, it was celebrated in Russia on May 9th, because of the time difference between the countries.

[ruiliang]

It's really good of the video can please have videos about defend Moscow,

[GottfriedLeibnizYT]

Sal, you showed how bloody some battles are with lots of deaths then you mentioned the atomic bombing casually as if it hadn't burned 250, 000 civilians instantly.