1945-69

Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). It is most widely known for being the end of World War II. It is also known as the beginning of the Information Age. more...

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Events

(Below, many events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.)

January

January 5 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.;

January 7 - British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference at Zonhoven describing his contribution to the Battle of the Bulge.; January 12 - WWII: The Soviet Union begin the Vistula-Oder Offensive in Eastern Europe against the Nazis.; January 13 - A Soviet patrol arrests Raoul Wallenberg in Hungary.;

January 16 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.;

January 17 - WWII: Soviets occupy Warsaw.;

January 17 - Holocaust: Nazis begin to evacuate from Auschwitz concentration camp.;

January - American troops cross The Siegfried Line into Germany.;

January 20 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated to an unprecedented fourth term as President of the United States.; January 20 - Hungary drops out of the Second World War, agreeing to an armistice with the Allies.; January 24 - First successful launch of the German A4b-Rocket; January 27 - The Red Army arrives at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland and find the Nazi concentration camp where 1.3 million people were murdered.; January 28 - WWII: Supplies begin to reach China over the newly reopened Burma Road.; January 30 - The Wilhelm Gustloff ship with over 10,000 mainly civilian Germans from Gotenhafen (Gdynia) in the Gdansk Bay is sunk by 3 torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea. Based on recent research, over 9,000 died.; January 31 - Eddie Slovik is executed by firing squad for desertion, the first American soldier since the American Civil War and last to date to be executed for this offence.;

February

February 2 - WWII: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave to meet with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference.; February 3 - WWII: Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific Theater conflict against Japan.; February 4 - WWII: 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 6 - French writer Robert Brasillach executed for collaboration with the Germans; February 7 - WWII: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila; February 9 - Walter Ulbricht becomes the leader of German communists in Moscow; February 10 - WWII: The SS General von Steuben sunk by the Soviet submarine S-13.; February 13 - WWII: Soviet Union forces capture Budapest, Hungary from the Nazis.; February 13 - WWII: The Royal Air Force bombs Dresden, Germany.; February 14 - Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru join the United Nations.; February 16 - WWII: American forces land on Corregidor island in the Philippines.; February 16 - American forces recapture the Bataan Peninsula; February 19 - WWII: Battle of Iwo Jima - about 30,000 United States Marines landed on Iwo Jima starting the battle.; February 21 - Last launch of an A4-rocket at Peenemünde; February 23 - WWII: Following the American victory at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima taken by Joe Rosenthal will later win a Pulitzer Prize.; February 23 - WWII: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by American forces.; February 23 - WWII: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań, city is liberated by Red Army and Polish forces.; February 24 - Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree;

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