1. Short title This Act may be cited as the 75th Anniversary of the End of World War II Commemorative Coin Act . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) the United States entered World War II as a result of the surprise Japanese attack against our fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, which killed 2,403 people of the United States; (2) the United States joined the wartime Allied cause against the militarist, fascist, and racist dictatorships of Germany, Japan, and Italy (the Axis), fighting for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms (freedom of speech, of worship, from want, and from fear); (3) the United States placed no more than 16,000,000 of its citizens into uniform in the course of the struggle, enduring a string of early defeats, recovering to conduct a total war on land, sea, and air, and eventually establishing total dominance over its enemies; (4) the war took the lives of 405,399 United States military personnel, fellow citizens who made the supreme sacrifice in a perilous moment in the history of the United States, giving their lives for the cause of democracy and peace; (5) the conflict led to a comprehensive transformation of the home front from a civilian economy dedicated to peacetime production into the mightiest engine of military might in human history (labeled the Arsenal of Democracy ), demanding the participation of the entire citizenry and thus leading to increased opportunities for racial minorities and women; (6) the war ended on September 2, 1945, after the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan, and a total victory for the United States and the Allies; (7) Allied victory in World War II transformed the United States into the leader of the free world, a community of countries dedicated to democratic principles and to resisting all forms of tyranny, including authoritarian, militarist, or communist, and an international order founded on open societies, liberal economies, and the peaceful resolution of disputes