WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO AUGUST 1945
Find out what all happened April to August 1945

World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies. (29. April 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)

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

World War II: Soviet forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters. (21. April 1945)

The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco. (26. June 1945)

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

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

The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being. (30. August 1945)

Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire. (17. August 1945)

King Haakon VII of Norway returned with his family to Oslo after five years in exile. (7. June 1945)

World War II: German surrender at Lüneburg Heath, the North German Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. (4. May 1945)

World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day. (7. May 1945)

Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei. (10. June 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)

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

The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (15. June 1945)

World War II: Start of Operation Manna. (29. April 1945)

Manhattan Project: the Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. (16. July 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)