Even after the triumph of VE Day, there still remained a war to be fought. The final act of this war was played out in the skies above Japan. A new US President, Harry Truman, took the devastating decision to deploy a new weapon against the forces of Japan. The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the dreams of Imperial Japan were ended at a stroke. The post war world began the slow and painful process of reshaping and re-assessing after the trials of war. All over the world populations began to see a future of independence, free from colonial domination. India became free of the British Empire but the French colony of Indo-China, present day Vietnam, had to fight hard for its day of liberation. The Iron Curtain fell across Eastern Europe as the Soviet Empire was re-drawn and in the Far East the foundations for a new Japan were laid. Our modern world springs from the ashes of World War Two and the lessons of good versus evil. The lesson of history created by those millions who suffered and died, the lesson to both present and future generations, is that we must never forget.