1st January » World War II: In retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops massacre 30 SS prisoners at Chenogne massacre known as Chenogne.
1st January » World War II: The German 'Luftwaffe' launches 'Operation Bodenplatte', a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allies of World War II called Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.
2nd January » World War II: Nuremberg, Germany (in German, Nürnberg) is severely bombed by Allies of World War II e.g Allied forces.
3rd January » World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all United States Navy known as U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa Prefecture or Okinawa in Japan.
5th January » The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
7th January » World War II: United Kingdom or British General Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein known as Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
8th January » World War II: Commonwealth of the Philippines or Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Imperial Japanese Army called Japanese Imperial forces.
9th January » World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
11th January » Greek Civil War: Last day of the Dekemvriana clashes in Athens, Greece.
16th January » Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
17th January » World War II: Soviet Union e.g Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
17th January » The Nazi Germany e.g Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
17th January » Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet Union known as Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
19th January » World War II: Red Army Soviet forces liberate the Ghetto Litzmannstadt Łódź ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazism Nazi occupation.
20th January » World War II: Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies of World War II known as Allies.
20th January » World War II: Nazi Germany named Germany begins the evacuation of East Prussia e.g evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly two months.
23rd January » World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
25th January » World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
26th January » World War II: The Red Army Heiligenbeil Pocket begins encircling the 4th Army (Wehrmacht) German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil Pocket Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.
26th January » World War II: Audie Murphy in action that will later win him the Medal of Honor.
27th January » World War II: The Red Army liberates the remained inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp or Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp built by the Nazi Germans on the territory of Poland.
28th January » World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
30th January » World War II: The 'KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff or Wilhelm Gustloff', overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet Union or Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximatel
30th January » World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
31st January » United States Army US Army private Eddie Slovik is capital punishment executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the American Civil War Civil War.
31st January » World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
31st January » World War II: the end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Rakhine State called Arakan
3rd February » World War II: As part of Bombing of Berlin in World War II March 1944 to April 1945 Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17 Flying Fortress B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehousing dehouses another 120,0
3rd February » World War II: The United States and the Commonwealth of the Philippines Philippine Commonwealth begin Battle of Manila (1945) a month-long battle to retake Manila from Empire of Japan Japan.
4th February » World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
4th February » World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Winston Churchill Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea Soviet Union: 1922.E2.80.931991 Crimea.
4th February » World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
5th February » World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
8th February » World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
9th February » World War II: Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945) The Battle of the Atlantic HMS Venturer P68 6 sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
9th February » World War II: A force of Allies of World War II Allied aircraft Black Friday (1945) unsuccessfully attacked a Nazi Germany German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
13th February » World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany named German and Kingdom of Hungary (1920-1946) or Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
13th February » World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a Bombing of Dresden in World War II called massive aerial bombardment.
14th February » World War II: On the first day of the Bombing of Dresden in World War II named bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
14th February » World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslavs named Yugoslav Partisans (Yugoslavia) known as partisans.
14th February » President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy CA-71 6, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
15th February » World War II: Third day of Bombing of Dresden in World War II known as bombing in Dresden.
16th February » World War II: American forces Battle of Corregidor (1945) or land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
19th February » World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima about 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
21st February » World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea CVE-95 6 and damage the USS Saratoga CV-3 6.
23rd February » World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima known as photographed raising the American flag.
23rd February » World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino people called Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños, Laguna or Los Baños internment camp.
23rd February » World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
23rd February » World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet Union known as Soviet and Polish forces.
23rd February » World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is Bombing of Pforzheim in World War II named annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
24th February » Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament of Egypt called Parliament after reading a decree.
25th February » World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
3rd March » World War II: American and Filipino troops Battle of Manila (1945) e.g recapture Manila in the Philippines.
3rd March » World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit Pawłokoma massacre known as massacres at least 150 Ukraine e.g Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
3rd March » World War II: The Royal Air Force known as RAF Bombing of the Bezuidenhout called accidentally bombs the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.
4th March » Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
6th March » World War II: Cologne is captured by American Troops.
7th March » World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen.
9th March » The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces begin, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
10th March » The United States Army Air Forces known as U.S. Army Air Force Bombing of Tokyo in World War II named firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
11th March » World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the United States Pacific Fleet or U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
11th March » World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived Japanese puppet state, is established with Bảo Đại as its ruler.
15th March » World War II: Soviet forces begin an Upper Silesian Offensive named offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia.
16th March » World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
16th March » Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by United Kingdom or British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
17th March » The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture.
18th March » World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
19th March » World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin CV-13 6, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power.
19th March » World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Nazi Germany e.g Germany to be destroyed.
21st March » World War II: United Kingdom or British troops liberate Mandalay, Myanmar named Burma.
21st March » World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
21st March » World War II: Kingdom of Bulgaria known as Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes.
22nd March » The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
26th March » World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.
29th March » World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
29th March » World War II: The German 4th Army (Wehrmacht) known as 4th Army is Heiligenbeil Pocket called almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.
30th March » World War II: Soviet Union Soviet Red Army forces invade Austria and capture Vienna; Armia Ludowa Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdańsk Danzig.
1st April » World War II: Battle of Okinawa named Operation Iceberg United States troops land on Okinawa in the last major campaign of the war.
2nd April » Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established.
4th April » World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
4th April » World War II: American troops Battle of Kassel (1945) or capture Kassel.
5th April » Cold War: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia e.g Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".
6th April » World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from Germany called German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
7th April » World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato called Japanese battleship 'Yamato', the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
7th April » World War II: Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina named Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
8th April » World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are Celler Hasenjagd called massacred by Nazis.
9th April » World War II: The German pocket battleship German cruiser Admiral Scheer or 'Admiral Scheer' is sunk by the Royal Air Force
9th April » World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
9th April » The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
11th April » World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
12th April » U.S. President of the United States or President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
13th April » World War II: Nazi Germany named German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen (war crime) known as Gardelegen, Germany.
13th April » World War II: Soviet Union Soviet and Kingdom of Bulgaria Bulgarian forces Vienna Offensive capture Vienna, Austria.
14th April » Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation.
15th April » The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
16th April » World War II: The Red Army begins the Battle of Berlin known as final assault on Nazi Germany or German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
16th April » The United States Army liberates Nazi 'Sonderlager' (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz Castle named Colditz).
16th April » More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship 'Goya (ship) e.g Goya' is sunk by a Soviet submarine.
17th April » World War II: Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from Nazi forces.
18th April » Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
20th April » World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
20th April » World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
20th April » Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme concentration camp e.g Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
21st April » World War II: Soviet Union Soviet forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the Nazi Germany German Oberkommando der Wehrmacht High Command headquarters.
22nd April » World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and 80 escape.
22nd April » World War II: Führerbunker Events in 1945 e.g Führerbunker: After learning that Soviet Union named Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.
25th April » Elbe Day: United States Armed Forces named United States and Soviet Armed Forces called Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the 'Wehrmacht' of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
25th April » Liberation Day (Italy): The Nazi Germany Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet Italian Social Republic fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini i
25th April » Fifty nations gather in San Francisco named San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organization.
26th April » World War II: Battle of Bautzen (1945) called Battle of Bautzen last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
26th April » World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army are liberated in Baguio City and they fight against the Japanese forces
27th April » World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Lapland War named Finnish Lapland.
27th April » World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian resistance movement e.g Italian partisans in Dongo (CO) known as Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
28th April » Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
29th April » World War II: The Nazi Germany e.g German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies of World War II or Allies.
29th April » World War II: Start of Operations Manna and Chowhound e.g Operation Manna.
29th April » World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
29th April » World War II Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the following day.
29th April » The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
29th April » The Italy Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from Germany German forces by Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) Brazilian forces.
30th April » World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet Union known as Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
1st May » World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by ord
1st May » World War II: Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda Goebbels named Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Führerbunker. Their Goebbels children or children are murdered by Magda by having cyanide pills inserted into the
1st May » World War II: Yugoslav Partisans free Trieste.
2nd May » World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag (building) named 'Reichstag' building.
2nd May » World War II: Italian Campaign (World War II) or Italian Campaign General Heinrich von Vietinghoff signs the official instrument of surrender of all Wehrmacht forces in Italy.
2nd May » World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death.
3rd May » World War II: Sinking of the prison ships 'Cap Arcona, Thielbek' and 'Deutschland IV (liner) known as Deutschland' by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
4th May » World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
4th May » World War II: German surrender at Lüneburg Heath, the North German Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein e.g Bernard Montgomery.
4th May » World War II: Denmark is granted liberation, when Germany was forced to step out of Denmark thus ending 5 years of occupation.
5th May » World War II: Canadian and British troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from Nazism named German occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate.
5th May » World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation of Czechoslovakia named German occupation.
6th May » World War II: Mildred Gillars e.g Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allies of World War II or Allied troops.
6th May » World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front (World War II) e.g Eastern Front, begins.
8th May » Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.
8th May » World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Reims, France, to an German Instrument of Surrender, 1945 or unconditional surrender.
8th May » Halifax Riot or The Halifax Riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through City of Halifax known as Halifax.
8th May » End of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
8th May » Dissolution and German Instrument of Surrender named surrender of Nazi Germany and all its forces.
9th May » World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
11th May » World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill CV-17 6 is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of its crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under its own power.
12th May » Argentina Argentinian Labour movement labour leader José Peter declares the 'Meat Industry Workers Federation Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne' dissolved.
15th May » World War II: The Battle of Poljana, the final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
22nd May » Operation Paperclip United States Army Major Robert B. Staver recommends that the U.S. evacuate German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
23rd May » World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allies of World War II named Allied custody.
23rd May » World War II: The Flensburg Government under President of Germany (1919–1945) known as Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by United Kingdom called British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany.
29th May » First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
5th June » The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
10th June » Second Australian Imperial Force named Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
14th June » World War II: Filipino troops of the 15th, 66th and 121st Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
15th June » The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
18th June » William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.
20th June » The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America.
21st June » World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
22nd June » The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
26th June » The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
29th June » Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
5th July » World War II: The liberation of the Philippines is declared.
16th July » World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis CA-35 6 leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Tinian Island.
16th July » Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States Trinity (nuclear test) called successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
17th July » World War II: The main three leaders of the Allies of World War II or Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, Potsdam Conference or meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
23rd July » The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
26th July » The Labour Party (UK) e.g Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election, 1945 called United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
26th July » The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
26th July » HMS Vestal J215 6 is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the World War Two Second World War
26th July » The United States Navy US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis CA-35 6 arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
28th July » A U.S. Army North American B-25 Mitchell or B-25 bomber B-25 Empire State Building crash e.g crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
29th July » The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
30th July » World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis CA-35 6, killing 883 seamen.
31st July » Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allies of World War II known as Allied soldiers in Austria.
6th August » World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastated when the nuclear weapon atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States Boeing B-29 Superfortress B-29 'Enola Gay'. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly,
9th August » World War II: Nagasaki, Nagasaki Nagasaki is Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastated when an nuclear weapon atomic bomb, 'Fat Man', is dropped by the United States B-29 Superfortress B-29 'Bockscar'. 39,000 people are killed outright.
9th August » The Red Army Soviet invasion of Manchuria named invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
11th August » Poles in Kraków engage in Kraków pogrom e.g a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
14th August » Japan accepts the Allied Japanese Instrument of Surrender terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor of Japan Emperor records the Gyokuon-hōsō Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time).
14th August » The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
16th August » Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, is captured by Soviet Union known as Soviet troops.
17th August » Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta Proclamation of Indonesian Independence named proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire.
19th August » August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
21st August » Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
23rd August » Soviet–Japanese War (1945) called Soviet–Japanese War Joseph Stalin ordered conveying a Imperial Japanese Army called Japanese army prisoner of war to the Soviet Union. (Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union)
25th August » Ten days after World War II ends with Japan Victory over Japan Day announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China Chinese Communist Party kill United States U.S. intelligence officer John Birch (missionary) John Birch, regarded
30th August » Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
30th August » The Commander-in-chief United States called Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
30th August » The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
30th August » The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
31st August » The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
2nd September » World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific War Pacific Theater: the Japanese Instrument of Surrender (1945) Instrument of Surrender of Imperial Japan Japan is signed by Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan) Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and acc
2nd September » Vietnam declares its independence, forming the North Vietnam e.g Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
3rd September » Three-day celebration was held in China, following the Victory over Japan Day China called Victory over Japan Day on September 2.
5th September » Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
7th September » Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to United States Marine Corps e.g U.S. Marines.
8th September » Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet Union known as Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
9th September » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan formally surrenders to Republic of China (1912–49) called China.
11th September » World War II: 9th Division (Australia) e.g Australian 9th Division forces liberate the Japanese-run Batu Lintang camp, a POW and civilian internment camp on the island of Borneo.
15th September » A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
16th September » World War II: The surrender of the Japanese troops in Hong Kong is accepted by Royal Navy Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.
18th September » General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
19th September » Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
30th September » The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
6th October » Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).
9th October » Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz named Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
10th October » The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement.
12th October » World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
15th October » World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.
16th October » The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada.
17th October » Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens becomes Prime Minister of Greece between the pull-out of the German occupation force in 1944 and the return of George II of Greece named King Georgios II to Greece.
18th October » Argentina e.g Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Perón or Eva "Evita" Duarte.
29th October » Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
30th October » Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Los Angeles Dodgers e.g Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
1st November » The official North Korean newspaper, 'Rodong Sinmun', is first published under the name 'Chongro'.
1st November » Australia joins the United Nations.
20th November » Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazism Nazi war crime war criminals start at the Palace of Justice (Nuremberg) Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
21st November » The United Auto Workers strike 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a 30-percent raise.
4th December » By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.)
5th December » Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
15th December » Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.
27th December » The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations.