CREDITS
Sources
All images on this site come from Wikimedia Commons and are in the public domain or under Creative Commons licenses. CC-licensed images are attributed as required; follow "Original" for the source page and full license details.
Images
| Preview | Subject | Author | License | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Surrender in Nanjing: Kobayashi Asasaburō hands the surrender document to He Yingqin (home page background) | Unknown (postcard by Kunming International Company) | Public domain | Original |
 | Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War | Lover of Romance (uploader) | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Original |
 | Gyokuon-ban recording disc | Sphl at Japanese Wikipedia | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Original |
 | Shanghai celebrates victory | Unknown | Public domain | Original |
 | Japanese delegation at the Nanjing surrender ceremony | Lt. Rob | Public domain | Original |
 | Shigemitsu Mamoru signs aboard the USS Missouri | Lt. Stephen E. Korpanty (U.S. Army Signal Corps) | Public domain | Original |
 | Mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki | George R. Caron / Charles Levy | Public domain | Original |
 | Hiroshima after the atomic bombing | U.S. Navy | Public domain | Original |
 | Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki | Charles Levy | Public domain | Original |
 | A Tokyo street after the air raids | Ishikawa Kōyō | Public domain | Original |
 | Baby in the ruins of Shanghai South Station | H. S. Wong | Public domain | Original |
 | Nanjing refugee women helped by Minnie Vautrin | Collection of the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall | Public domain | Original |
 | Destroyed Stalingrad | Georgy Zelma / RIA Novosti archive | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Original |
 | Ruins of Dresden | Richard Peter / Deutsche Fotothek | CC BY-SA 3.0 DE | Original |
 | Warsaw, January 1945 | Maciej Świerczyński | Public domain | Original |
 | Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima | Oilstreet | CC BY 2.5 | Original |
 | Signing the UN Charter | Australian Government: Department of Information | Public domain | Original |
Text and data references
- Wikipedia: Hirohito surrender broadcast
- Wikipedia: Surrender of Japan
- Wikipedia: World War II casualties (estimates by country)
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
- Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders
- Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
- Charter of the United Nations, full text
- UNHCR Global Trends (forcibly displaced people)
- SIPRI Yearbook (world nuclear forces)
Historical casualty figures differ between sources depending on methods and records. This site uses commonly cited scholarly or official estimates for public education only. Corrections are welcome.