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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End of World War II in Europe (redirect from German surrender in WWII)
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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Ulysses S. Grant (redirect from Unconditional Surrender Grant)
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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Battle of Berlin (redirect from Surrender of Berlin)
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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Total war (section Unconditional surrender)
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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Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (section Japan's leaders refused to surrender)
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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