Editing 1945 (section)

===September===
{{Main|September 1945}}
[[File:Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender, officially ending the Second World War.jpg|thumb|[[September 2]] – Japan signs the [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender|Instrument of Surrender]] aboard the [[USS Missouri (BB-63)|USS ''Missouri'']].]]
[[File:Japanese flag down US flag up.png|thumb|[[September 9]] – Japanese troops formally relinquish control of Southern Korea over to the United States, effectively ending Japan's 35-year [[Korea under Japanese rule|rule over Korea]].]]
* [[September 2]] – World War II ends:
** Japanese general [[Tomoyuki Yamashita]] surrenders to Philippine and American forces at [[Kiangan, Ifugao]].
** The final official [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender]] is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General [[Douglas MacArthur]], and [[Admiral of the Fleet|Fleet Admiral]] [[Chester W. Nimitz]] for the United States, and delegates from the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by [[Mamoru Shigemitsu]], on board the American battleship USS ''[[USS Missouri (BB-63)|Missouri]]'' in [[Tokyo Bay]].
** General [[Douglas MacArthur]] is given the title of [[Supreme Commander Allied Powers]], and is also tasked with the occupation of Japan.<ref name=Jessup>{{cite book|last1=Jessup|first1=John E.|title=A Chronology of Conflict and Resolution, 1945-1985|year=1989|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=New York|isbn=0-313-24308-5}}</ref>
** The [[North Vietnam|Democratic Republic of Vietnam]] is officially established, by [[Ho Chi Minh]].<ref name=Jessup/>
* [[September 4]] – WWII: Japanese forces surrender on [[Wake Island]], after hearing word of their country's surrender.
* [[September 5]]
** [[Iva Toguri D'Aquino]], a [[Japanese American]] suspected of being wartime radio propagandist "[[Tokyo Rose]]", is arrested in [[Yokohama]].
** Russian code clerk [[Igor Gouzenko]] comes forward with numerous documents implicating the Soviet Union in many spy rings in North America, both in the United States and in Canada.
* [[September 8]] – U.S. troops arrive in [[United States Army Military Government in Korea|Southern Korea]], while the [[Soviet Union]] occupies the [[Soviet Civil Authority|north]], with the dividing line being the 38th parallel of latitude. This arrangement proves to be the indirect beginning of a divided Korea, which will lead to the [[Korean War]] when North Korea invades in [[1950]].
* [[September 9]] 
**Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China [[Chiang Kai-shek]] officially accepts the Japanese capitulation at [[Nanjing|Nanking]].<ref name=Jessup/>
**Japanese troops in [[Keijō]] (present day [[Seoul]]) formally relinquish control over Southern Korea to the United States, effectively ending Japan's 35-year rule of Korea.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sthelepress.com/index.php/2023/12/16/ccc/|quote=Assertion that the emperor's surrender 'abruptly' ended Japan’s occupation of the peninsula, which in fact continued in the southern part for more than three weeks?|last=Myers|first=Brian Reynolds|title=The Power to Mystify|work=Sthele Press|date=16 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/explore/photography/korean-war/surrender-japan-korea.html | title=Surrender of Japan in Korea }}</ref>
* [[September 10]] – [[Vidkun Quisling]] is sentenced to death for being a Nazi collaborator in Norway.<ref name=Jessup/>
* [[September 11]]
** [[Hideki Tojo]], Japanese prime minister during most of World War II, attempts to commit suicide to avoid facing an Allied [[war crime]]s tribunal.
** ''[[Radio Republik Indonesia]]'' starts broadcasting.
** The [[Batu Lintang camp]] in [[Sarawak]], [[Borneo]] is liberated by Australian forces.
* [[September 12]] 
**[[Operation Tiderace]]: The Japanese Army formally surrenders to the British in [[Singapore]].
**The office of [[Governor-General of Chōsen|governor-general of Korea]] is disbanded by the United States Army Military Government in Korea, formally ending Japan's 35-year rule in Korea.
* [[September 18]]
** [[Tropical cyclone|Typhoon Makurazaki]] kills 3,746 people in Japan.
** The Japanese Army in Central China officially surrenders to the Chinese, in [[Wuhan]].
* [[September 20]] – [[Mahatma Gandhi|Mohandas Gandhi]] and [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] demand that all British troops depart India.
* [[September 24]] – [[Postwar anti-Jewish violence in Slovakia]]: The [[Topoľčany pogrom]] is carried out in Czechoslovakia.