WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JULY 1945
Find out what all happened January to July 1945

The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed. (9. April 1945)

World War II: Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies. (20. January 1945)

Dissolution and surrender of Nazi Germany and all its forces. (8. May 1945)

World War II: Canadian and British troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from German occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate. (5. May 1945)

Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again. (17. January 1945)

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

Argentinian labour leader José Peter declares the Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved. (12. May 1945)

World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea. (4. February 1945)

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

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President. (12. April 1945)

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

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

Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation. (14. April 1945)

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

World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers. (27. March 1945)

HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the Second World War (26. July 1945)

World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces. (23. February 1945)

World War II: Nuremberg, Germany (in German, Nürnberg) is severely bombed by Allied forces. (2. January 1945)

World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces. (7. April 1945)