WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO APRIL 1945
Find out what all happened January to April 1945

World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England. (29. March 1945)

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

World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp. (23. February 1945)

Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again. (17. January 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 United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan. (3. February 1945)

The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians. (10. March 1945)

World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces. (26. March 1945)

World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building. (30. April 1945)

World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands. (31. March 1945)

World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army. (13. February 1945)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations. (14. February 1945)

World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. 520 are killed and 80 escape. (22. April 1945)

World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow. (1. January 1945)

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

Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker. (16. January 1945)

The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. (5. January 1945)

World War II Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz. (23. April 1945)

World War II: 1,250 American bombers attacked Berlin. (18. March 1945)

World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine. (8. February 1945)