When did WWII start; has it yet ended?

I heard that the Red Baron was shot down by General Groundfire. I believe the good general was indeed Australian so that's that.

 

If you use the definition of WW2 ending with countries signing a peace treaty then WW2 continues also for Russia and Japan. In fact, they still have significant territorial disputes over the Kuril & Sakhalin Islands, that were never resolved from WW2.

And while China and Japan aren't formally at war, the anti-Japanese fervor in China (and Korea) is raised quite often, so the 'spirit' of WW2 (and before) lives on.

 

Of course the Japanese have been at War in Korea and Manchuria variously with the Chinese and Russians since at least the late 1800s. The Russians and the Japanese have disputed Sakhalin even longer. If I remember [looking for notes], the Japanese ceded it to the Russians in exchange for the Kuriles although TR forced the Russians to give the southern half of the island back to the Japanese in the Treaty of Portsmouth. Agreements at Yalta put the island back in the Russian sphere and they occupied it, for lack of a better description, in 1945. No treaty was ever signed concerning the island, thus they are disputed to this date.
Bill