WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1945
Find out what all happened January to December 1945

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

World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army. (4. May 1945)

World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power. (19. March 1945)

By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.) (4. December 1945)

The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights. (16. April 1945)

The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. (5. January 1945)

World War II: Operation Iceberg – United States troops land on Okinawa in the last major campaign of the war. (1. April 1945)

The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. (18. October 1945)

Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria. (31. July 1945)

World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans. (6. April 1945)

World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximately 9,500 people. (30. January 1945)

Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London. (19. September 1945)

World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go. (7. April 1945)

Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established. (2. April 1945)

Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat). (6. October 1945)

World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces. (23. February 1945)

Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Duarte. (18. October 1945)

The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces. (29. April 1945)

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations. (27. December 1945)

World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. (23. February 1945)