surrender ceremony
Official defeat acknowledgment
A surrender ceremony is a formal event marking the end of armed conflict, where the defeated party officially yields to the victor.
Such ceremonies typically involve signing documents, symbolic gestures like laying down weapons, and military protocol: The Japanese surrender ceremony took place aboard the USS Missouri.
The term extends to any ritualized acknowledgment of defeat or capitulation.
- capitulationComplete yielding to demands
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- war's endTermination of armed conflict
- armisticeAgreement to cease hostilities
- white flagSignal of capitulation
unconditional · signing · defeat · victor · military honors · vanquished · laying down arms · truce · battlefield · enemy lines · generals · officers · swords · formal · documents · humiliation · dignity · negotiation
- Pacific WarPearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Midway, Okinawa, Guadalcanal
- Surrenderscapitulation, white flag, laying down arms, Appomattox, giving up
- YorktownCornwallis, capitulation, George Washington, Washington, Lafayette
- Victory HolidaysVictory Day, V-E Day, V-J Day, VE Day, VJ Day
- China WWIIFlying Tigers, Chongqing, Burma Road, Chiang Kai-shek, Kuomintang
- Imperial JapanEmperor Hirohito, Hirohito, Rising Sun, Meiji, kamikaze
surrender ceremonyvictory parade
Ceremonial march for winners
triumph · victory celebration · triumphal march · ticker-tape parade · victory lap
surrender ceremonydeclaration of war
Formal announcement of hostilities
war declaration · mobilization · call to arms · invasion · first strike
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