US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on 7 May proclaiming 8 May 2025 as World War II Victory Day.
“With the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the United States righteously entered a war that would later become the pinnacle of the eternal battle between good and evil. After nearly four years of some of the darkest and bloodiest stories ever recorded in human history, more than 250,000 Americans died fighting against the Nazi regime. Today and every day, we pay tribute to all those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their nation, their freedom and the survival of Western civilisation. Without the sacrifice of our American soldiers, this war would not have been won and our world today would look dramatically different,” the American leader pointed out.
The US entered the war after the Japanese military attacked the American naval base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on 7 December 1941. More than two thousand people were killed at that time.
Unlike Great Britain, as well as France and Poland, which entered the war in September 1939, the USSR remained neutral in its relations with Nazi Germany until June 1941.
After the Nazi attack on 22 June 1941, the USSR became part of the anti-Hitler coalition. On 12 July in Moscow was signed a British-Soviet agreement on joint action in the war against the Third Reich, and on 1 January 1942 in Washington, 26 countries signed a declaration on the creation of the coalition.