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June 5, 1945 (Tuesday) Germany is occupied in 4 zones by the Allied Powers following the Berlin Declaration. The Berlin Declaration was signed by the United States, USSR, Britain and France, confirming the complete legal dissolution of Nazi Germany. 473 B-29 Superfortress bombers raided Kobe, dropping 3,000 tons of incendiary bombs.
1945 ( MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1945th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 945th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1940s decade.
October. October 2 – George Albert Smith becomes president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. October 3–10 – The Detroit Tigers win the World Series against the Chicago Cubs. October 5 – Hollywood Black Friday: A strike by the Set Decorator's Union in Hollywood results in a riot.
14: The 1945 Bombing of Prague: American planes bomb the wrong city. 15: Venezuela and Uruguay declare war on Germany and Japan. 16: American paratroopers and Philippine Commonwealth troops land on Corregidor Island, in Manila Bay. Once the scene of the last American resistance in early 1942, it is now the scene of Japanese resistance.
February 1944. 1st. 15th. 1: U.S. Marines mop up on Roi and Namur in the northern part of the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. 2: The Narva front near the east border of Estonia is formed between the Soviet and German forces. : Germans defeat American troops in the Battle of Cisterna near Anzio. [ 2]
The Simla Conference of 1945 was a meeting between the Viceroy of India, Lord Wavell and the major political leaders of British India at the Viceregal Lodge in Simla. When it was clear that British intended to leave India, they desperately needed an agreement on what should happen when they leave. Talks stalled on the issue of the selection of ...
Victory in Europe Day. Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last known shots fired on 11 May.
This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).