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April 12 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (born 1882) April 17 – Ernie Pyle, journalist (born 1900) April 29 – Malcolm McGregor, silent film actor (born 1892) April 30 – William Orlando Darby, U.S. Army colonel, creator of the Rangers (born 1911; killed in action)
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May 7, 1945 – Germany surrenders, end of World War II in Europe; 1945 – Carousel opens on Broadway; 1945 – Potsdam Conference; 1945 - Tennessee Williams’s play The Glass Menagerie opens in New York; August 6 and 9, 1945 – Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. August 14, 1945 – Japan surrenders, ending World War II.
Between 1945 and 1960, GNP grew by 250%, expenditures on new construction multiplied nine times, and consumption on personal services increased three times. By 1960, per capita income was 35% higher than in 1945, and America had entered what the economist Walt Rostow referred to as the "high mass consumption" stage of economic development ...
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1945 marked the end of an era. In foreign policy the United Nations was established on October 24, 1945, to serve as a world body to help prevent future world wars. By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate, on December 4, 1945, approved the treaty that set full American participation in the UN, with a veto in the all-important Security ...
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