World War II did not end until 1990! It wasn’t until the United States, England, France and USSR gave up their rights to the territories in Germany in a 1990 treaty that resulted in the reunification of Germany that the last issues of WWII were decided. It is interesting that the war began with the Allies fighting against Germany but couldn’t end until the Allies ‘won’ the cold war with the USSR.

(The Great Courses – Literary Modernism)