the beginning is the end of the end of the end.
You would likely be killed BY a guillotine if placed IN a guillotine.
Id would say the rapid loss of American lives in a War that the home front really didn't support caused it to end. American didn't learn the lessons that French did in their conquest of Vietnam....
Germany surrendered to Britain, the US and the Soviet Union and they were then in charge of Germany.
sakura from gakuen Alice ? she ends up with natsume if that's who you mean