1945

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1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 unknown date 1.14 Ongoing events 2 Year in topic 3 Science and Technology 4 Births 4.15 January-February 4.16 March-May 4.17 June-November 5 Deaths 5.18 January-March 5.19 April-August 5.20 September-December 6 Nobel Prizes 7 Heads of state in 1945

Events

• January 5 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
• January 7 - British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
• January 12 - World War II: The Soviets begin a very large offensive in Eastern Europe against the Nazis.
• January 13 - Soviet patrol arrests Raoul Wallenberg in Hungary.
• January 16 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker
• January 17 - World War II: Soviets occupy Warsaw
• January 17 - Holocaust: Nazis begin to evacuate from Auschwitz concentration camp
• January 27 - The Red Army arrives at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland and find the Nazi concentration camp where 1.1-1.5 million people were murdered.
• January 28 - World War II: Supplies begin to reach China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
• January 30 - The Wilhelm Gustloff with more 10,000 refugees from Gotenhafen in the Gdansk Bay sunk with three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13. More 9,300 drowned in the Baltic Sea.
• January 31 - Eddie Slovik is executed, the first American soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion

• February 2 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave to meet with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference.
• February 3 - World War II: Russia agrees to enter the Pacific Theatre conflict against Japan.
• February 4 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin begin the Yalta Conference (ends February 11)
• February 7 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila
• February 8 - World War II: United States fire bombs Dresden, Germany killing 35,000 citizens.
• February 10 - World War II: The Steuben sunk by the Soviet submarine S-13.
• February 13 - World War II: Soviet Union forces capture Budapest, Hungary from the Nazis.
• February 13 - World War II: The British Air Force bombs Dresden, Germany.
• February 14 - Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru join the United Nations.
• February 16 - World War II: American forces land on Corregidor island in the Philippines.
• February 16 - American forces recapture the Bataan Peninsula
• February 19 - World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima - about 30,000 United States Marines landed on Iwo Jima starting the battle.
• February 23 - World War II: Following the American victory at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Surabachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo will later win a Pulitzer Prize.
• February 23 - World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by American forces.
• February 24 - Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.

• March 3 - World War II: Previously neutral Finland declares war on the Axis powers.
• March 6 - Communist-led government formed in Romania
• March 7 - World War II: American troops seize the bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany and begin to cross.
• March 8 - Josip Broz Tito forms a government in Yugoslavia
• March 9 – March 10 - World War II: American B-29 bombers attack Japan with incendiary bombs. Tokyo is fire-bombed killing 100,000 citizens.
• March 16 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
• March 18 - World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
• March 19 - World War II: Adolf Hitler orders that all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed.
• March 19 - Off the coast of Japan, bombers hit the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 800 of her crew and crippling the ship.
• March 21 - World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma
• March 22 - The Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt.
• March 30 - World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna.

• April 1 - World War II: United States troops land on Okinawa in the last campaign of the war. The Battle of Okinawa starts.
• April 4 - World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf death camp in Germany.
• April 7 - World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa while in-route to a suicide mission.
• April 10 - The Allied Forces liberated their first Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald.
• April 12 - United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945) dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) takes the Oath of Office.
• April 25 - Founding negotiations of United Nations in San Francisco
• April 25 - World War II: United States and Russian troops link up at the Elbe River, cutting Germany in two
• April 28 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are hanged upside down by Italian partisans as they attempt to flee the country.
• April 30 - Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, commit suicide as Soviet troops approach Berlin.

• May 1 - Joseph Goebbels and his wife commit suicide after killing their 6 children.
• May 2 - World War II: The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin. Soviet soldiers hoist the red flag over the Reichstag building.
• May 2 - World War II: Troops of Yugoslav 4th Army together with Slovene 9th Corpus NOV liberate Trieste.
• May 3 - World War II: Sinking of the floating-jails Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in the Lübeck Bay.
• May 3 - Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and 120 members of his team surrender to US forces. They later help start the US space program.
• May 4 - World War II: Liberation of the concentration camp Neuengamme near Hamburg by the British army.
• May 4 - World War II: Reddition of the North Germany army by Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
• May 5 - Ezra Pound, poet and author, is arrested by American soldiers in Italy for treason.
• May 5 - World War II: US armored unit liberates prisoners of Mauthausen concentration camp - including Simon Wiesenthal
• May 5 - World War II: Canadian soldiers liberate the city of Amsterdam from Nazi occupation.
• May 6 - World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (first was on December 11, 1941).
• May 7 - World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs uncondi
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