WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1945
Find out what all happened February to November 1945

Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines. (7. September 1945)

World War II: the Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end. (6. April 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)

World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union. (20. April 1945)

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

World War II: The Battle of Poljana, the final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia. (15. May 1945)

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

Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union. (29. June 1945)

The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end. (22. June 1945)

World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation. (9. May 1945)

World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany. (4. April 1945)

The US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb. (26. July 1945)

Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens becomes Prime Minister of Greece between the pull-out of the German occupation force in 1944 and the return of King Georgios II to Greece. (17. October 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)

The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being. (30. August 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)

The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement. (10. October 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)

World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen. (7. March 1945)

The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America. (20. June 1945)