WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO APRIL 1945
Find out what all happened February to April 1945

World War II: Cologne is captured by American Troops. (6. March 1945)

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

World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna; Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig. (30. March 1945)

World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan. (3. February 1945)

Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation. (14. April 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: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht. (26. April 1945)

World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted. (16. March 1945)

World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans. (14. February 1945)

World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state, is established with Bảo Đại as its ruler. (11. March 1945)

World War II: The RAF accidentally bombs the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people. (3. March 1945)

The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces begin, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history. (9. March 1945)

World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations. (4. February 1945)

World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment. (13. February 1945)

Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree. (24. February 1945)

More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo. (16. April 1945)

Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe. (25. April 1945)

World War II: Third day of bombing in Dresden. (15. February 1945)

World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp. (11. April 1945)

Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip "Tito" Broz signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory". (5. April 1945)