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1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the year concentration camps were liberated and the only year in which atomic weapons have been used in combat.
August 9 – Atomic bombing of Nagasaki: United States B-29 Bockscar drops a plutonium-239 atomic bomb, codenamed "Fat Man", on the Japanese city of Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. local time, resulting in between 39,000 and 80,000 deaths. August 14 (August 15 in Japan) – Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender on the radio.
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What happened and who was famous in 1945? Browse important and historic events, world leaders, famous birthdays and notable deaths from the year 1945.
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.
April 15 – Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberated. Among the British war artists (official and unofficial) who record it soon afterwards are Sgt. Eric Taylor, Leslie Cole, Doris Zinkeisen, Mervyn Peake and Mary Kessell, together with Edgar Ainsworth and photographer Bert Hardy of Picture Post. [2] William Congdon, serving as an ambulance ...
1945 was a year that the world will not forget, as it was the last year of the Second World War. In January, after retreating to his bunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler took to the radio waves and made his last speech.
By the time it concluded on the deck of an American warship on September 2, 1945, World War II had claimed the lives of an estimated 60-80 million people, approximately 3 percent of the world’s...
Victory. The Allies celebrated the collapse of Germany and victory in Europe on V-E day, May 8, 1945. Across Britain, Europe, and the United States, jubilant crowds took to the streets, their elation—and relief—tempered by the knowledge that war still raged in the Pacific. But the celebrating was unrestrained on August 15, 1945, when Japan ...
A Cold War timeline containing important dates and events from 1945 to 1949. It covers the aftermath of World War II and the early years of the Cold War. This timeline has been written and researched by Alpha History authors.