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[RandFan #6] The man who actually WON World War 2 became president.
[nickcarraway #9] Who do you think won WWII? I thought you’d be the last person to say the United States won.
[RandFan #11] The Allied forces. Ike was their general wasn’t he? His title was “Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin

Battle of Berlin
Result: Soviet victory
• Death of Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi officials
• Unconditional surrender of German garrison in Berlin on 2 May
• Capitulation of Germany on 8 May
• End of World War II in Europe

V-E day is celebrated on May 8th, when Germany capitulated to the Soviets.

Eisenhower became the Commander of the Alied Expeditionary Force in 1944. The Soviet Union was not part of the AEF.

https://www.liberationroute.com/pois/249/u-s-troops-occupying-berlin

At the end of April 1945 the Soviet forces occupied Berlin, the capital of the German Reich. American and British troops did not enter the city until two months later on 4 July, the French forces participating initially with only a small unit. During those first two months, the Soviet Union was the sole occupying force, reorganizing life in the city in line with its own ideas and objectives.

The credit for defeating the Germans should go to the Soviet/Russians. The Allied Expeditionary Force was formed in 1944 as a British-American expeditionary force. When US./British forces arrived in Berlin. the Soviet forces were there waiting. The vast majority of German casualties were inflicted by the Russians, not the Americans/British.

Eisenhower bacame the Commander of the Alied Expeditionary Force in 1944. The Soviet Union was not part of the British/American AEF.

The war did not end with German surrender, The War in the Pacific carried on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day

Events before V-J Day (Victory in the Pacific, V-P Day, Australia)
On August 6 and 9, 1945, the Allies dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. On August 9, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. The Japanese government on August 10 communicated its intention to surrender under the terms of the Potsdam Declaration.