Timeline 1945
27 January
The liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp
17 January
Germans evacuate Warsaw
9 January
US forces land on Luzon in the Philippines
14 February
The liberation of Gross-Rosen concentration camp
4 February
Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt meet at a conference at Yalta
13 February
Major raids by RAF and USAAF on German city of Dresden
19 February
US forces land on Iwo Jima
7 March
US forces cross the River Rhine at Remagen
23 March
Allies cross the Rhine
27 March
Last V2 Rocket lands at Orpington, Kent
April
The liberation of Westerbork, Salzwedet, Bergen-Belsen, Dora-Mittelbau,
Buchenwald, Ohrdruf, Flossenbuerg, Dachau, Landsberg, Ravensbrüeck
and Sachsenhausen concentration camps
1 April
US forces invade Okinawa
12 April
Roosevelt dies and is succeeded by Truman
13 April
Vienna captured by Russian troops
16 April
Soviet forces launch final offensive towards Berlin
25 April
San Francisco Conference on the United Nations begins
28 April
Mussolini executed by Italian partisans
30 April
Hitler commits suicide
May
The liberation of Neuengamme, Woebbelin, Strutthof, Gunskirchen,
Ebensee, Gusen and Mauthausen concentrations camps
2 May
Soviet forces capture Berlin
2 May
German forces in Italy surrender
3 May
British forces capture Rangoon
4 May
German forces in north-west Germany, Holland and Denmark surrender
to Montgomery at Lüneberg Heath
7 May
Germany surrenders unconditionally to the Allies
8 May
Victory in Europe Day
9 May
Liberation of Guernsey, Jersey and Sark
23 May
Himmler commits suicide
26 June
United Nations Charter signed
5 July
General Election in United Kingdom
16 July
First atom bomb tested successfully in New Mexico
17 July
Potsdam Conference between Churchill, Stalin and Truman. Attlee
replaces Churchill on 27 July.
26 July
Results of the General Election announced. Churchill resigns as
Prime Minister and is succeeded by Attlee
6 August
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
8 August
Soviet Union declare war on Japan
9 August
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
14 August
Japan accepts Allied demand for unconditional surrender
15 August
Victory over Japan Day
2 September
Formal surrender of Japan signed
20 November
Nuremberg Trial of major Nazi war criminals begins
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