WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1945
Find out what all happened June to December 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)

The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music. (29. July 1945)

Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan). (10. November 1945)

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

Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War. (25. August 1945)

Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War. (5. September 1945)

Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns. (29. October 1945)

World War II: Australian 9th Division forces liberate the Japanese-run Batu Lintang camp, a POW and civilian internment camp on the island of Borneo. (11. September 1945)

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama. (5. September 1945)

Three-day celebration was held in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2. (3. September 1945)

By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.) (4. December 1945)

The United Auto Workers strike 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a 30-percent raise. (21. November 1945)

Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients (9. October 1945)

World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason. (15. October 1945)

Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle. (5. December 1945)

An assassination attempt is made on Japan's prime minister, Kantarō Suzuki. (16. August 1945)

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

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

The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam. (14. August 1945)