WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO JULY 1945
Find out what all happened May to July 1945

World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. (16. July 1945)

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

A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26. (28. July 1945)

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

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

World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death. (2. May 1945)

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

World War II: The Flensburg Government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany. (23. May 1945)

World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island. (21. 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: Filipino troops of the 15th, 66th and 121st Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon. (14. June 1945)

Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre. (8. May 1945)

William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II. (18. June 1945)

End of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic. (8. May 1945)

The Halifax Riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax. (8. May 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)

World War II: Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Führerbunker. Their children are murdered by Magda by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths. (1. May 1945)

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

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

First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber. (29. May 1945)