WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1945
Find out what all happened January to October 1945

World War II: the main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany. (17. July 1945)

World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp. (23. February 1945)

Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces. (17. April 1945)

World War II Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz. (23. April 1945)

World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power. (9. March 1945)

Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time. (21. October 1945)

The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated. (15. April 1945)

World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation. (19. January 1945)

Second Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan formally surrenders to China. (9. September 1945)

World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland. (27. April 1945)

World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany. (13. April 1945)

World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland. (3. March 1945)

World War II: The surrender of the Japanese troops in Hong Kong is accepted by Royal Navy Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt. (16. September 1945)

World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima – about 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima. (19. February 1945)

Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier. (30. October 1945)

The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power. (5. June 1945)

Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War. (25. August 1945)

World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany. (25. February 1945)

The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops. (29. April 1945)

The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begins. (23. July 1945)