Question: What date did the second world war end?

Disambiguated questions and answers:
context: No context provided
question: What date do most countries recognize as the date the second world war ended in Europe?
short_answers: V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day
8 May 1945
context: Victory over Japan Day (also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made – to the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan, and because of time zone differences, to August 14, 1945 (when it was announced in the United States and the rest of the Americas and Eastern Pacific Islands) – as well as to September 2, 1945, when the signing of the surrender document occurred, officially ending World War II.
question: What date did Japan surrender in World War II in Japanese local time?
short_answers: August 15, 1945
wikipage: Victory over Japan Day
context: The instrument of surrender signed 7 May 1945 stipulated all hostilities had to stop at 23:01 (CET), 8 May 1945, just an hour before midnight. Since that time would be already 9 May in the USSR, most post-Soviet states, including Russia celebrated Victory Day on 9 May. Since the end of Communism the former Soviet bloc in Europe except Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Serbia have shifted to celebrate, where the date is celebrated such as on major anniversaries, 8 May as the end of World War II, in line with the 7 May 1945 unconditional surrender document that Soviet and Russian leaders refused to recognise.
question: What date do Israel and several former Soviet bloc countries celebrate as the date the second world war ended in Europe?
short_answers: Victory Day
9 May
9 May 1945
wikipage: Victory in Europe Day
context: No context provided
question: On what dates did the second world war end in Europe?
short_answers: 8 or 9 May 1945
context: Victory over Japan Day (also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made – to the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan, and because of time zone differences, to August 14, 1945 (when it was announced in the United States and the rest of the Americas and Eastern Pacific Islands) – as well as to September 2, 1945, when the signing of the surrender document occurred, officially ending World War II.
question: What date did Japan surrender in World War II in US local time?
short_answers: August 14, 1945
wikipage: Victory over Japan Day
context: Victory over Japan Day (also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made – to the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan, and because of time zone differences, to August 14, 1945 (when it was announced in the United States and the rest of the Americas and Eastern Pacific Islands) – as well as to September 2, 1945, when the signing of the surrender document occurred, officially ending World War II.
question: On what date did Japan officially sign surrender documents, ending the second world war in Japan?
short_answers: September 2, 1945
wikipage: Victory over Japan Day

Long-form answers:
long_answer: Most countries in Europe recognize the date the second World War ended, also known as Victory in Europe Day, or V-E Day for short, as 8 May 1945. Israel and several former Soviet bloc countries recognize 9 May 1945 as Victory Day, so it is said World War II ended on 8 or 9 May 1945. Japan actually surrendered on August 15, 1945, but because of time zone differences, the US recognized it as August 14, 1945. Then, on September 2, 1945, Japan signed surrender documents, officially ending World War II.