• An unconditional surrender is a surrender in which no guarantees, reassurances, or promises (i.e., conditions) are given to the surrendering party. It...
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    The German Instrument of Surrender was a legal document effecting the unconditional surrender of the remaining German armed forces to the Allies, ending...
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    Unconditional Surrender is a series of computer-generated statues by Seward Johnson that resemble an iconic 1945 photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, V–J...
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    the United Kingdom and China, the United States called for the unconditional surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration on 26 July 1945—the alternative...
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  • Look up unconditional surrender in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An unconditional surrender is a surrender without conditions except for those provided...
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    forces surrendered over the next few days. On 8 May, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signed the German Instrument of Surrender, an unconditional surrender to...
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    Simon Bolivar Buckner, who submitted to Grant's demand for "unconditional and immediate surrender". Grant had won the first major victory for the Union, capturing...
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    attend. Key decisions included a commitment to demand Axis powers' unconditional surrender; plans for an invasion of Sicily and Italy before the main invasion...
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    States delegation considered a proclamation demanding Japan's unconditional surrender by the heads of governments of the United States, the United Kingdom...
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    through the stopping of resistance. Alternatively, in a surrender at discretion (unconditional surrender), the victor makes no promises of treatment, and unilaterally...
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    and invasion of Manchuria, Japan announced its unconditional surrender on 15 August, and signed a surrender document on 2 September 1945. World War II transformed...
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    World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official surrender of all German military operations...
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    Hamburg, British Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery accepted the unconditional surrender of the German forces in the Netherlands, northwest Germany including...
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  • Unconditional Surrender is a 1961 novel by the British novelist Evelyn Waugh. The novel has also been published under the title The End of the Battle...
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    willingness to negotiate a citywide surrender. They could not agree on terms because of Soviet insistence on unconditional surrender and Krebs' claim that he lacked...
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    government had accepted the Potsdam Declaration, which demanded the unconditional surrender of the Japanese military at the end of World War II. Following...
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    V-J Day in Times Square (category Surrender of Japan)
    "Unconditional Surrender Statue". Roadside America. Archived from the original on May 14, 2013. Pincus, Robert L. (March 11, 2007). "Port surrenders in...
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    World War I and then a conditional surrender when they perceived that the war was lost. The unconditional surrender of the major Axis powers caused a legal...
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    Battle of Fishguard (category Surrenders)
    Irish-American commander, Colonel William Tate, was forced into unconditional surrender on 24 February. In a related naval action, the British captured...
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    could move west to surrender to the Western Powers. Eisenhower made it clear that the Allies demanded immediate unconditional surrender on all fronts. When...
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  • represents the fine artist Édouard Manet, whose work he has copied. Unconditional Surrender (a series with several material versions begun in 2005), a spokesperson...
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  • novels are: Men at Arms (1952); Officers and Gentlemen (1955); and Unconditional Surrender (1961), marketed as The End of the Battle in the United States...
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    For the second time since the battle began, Yamashita demanded unconditional surrender and on the afternoon of 15 February, Percival capitulated. About...
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    with the defeat of Carthage by Rome in the 2nd century BC. The unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, in the strict sense only the German Armed Forces...
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    former Heer officer's mess hall in Karlshorst, where on May 8, the unconditional surrender of the German forces was presented to Zhukov by Colonel-General...
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    three wounded, Lieutenant Colonel Hawkins was tricked into an unconditional surrender by Duckworth. Unknown to Hawkins, a federal force of some 2000...
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    German High Command. Consequently, full civil provisions for the unconditional surrender of the German state remained without explicit formal basis. The...
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    for Finnish Unconditional Surrender" was found in October 1993 in the Russian Foreign Ministry archive, implying that unconditional surrender was indeed...
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    bombings would have forced Japan to surrender unconditionally. Some critics believe Japan was more motivated to surrender by the Soviet Union's invasion of...
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    only unconditional surrender. This was in line with Churchill's statement that as an Axis belligerent, Finland's surrender must be unconditional. The...
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