WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1945
Find out what all happened February to December 1945

World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans. (6. April 1945)

Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union. (29. 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: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine. (9. May 1945)

The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America. (20. June 1945)

World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the [Battle of the Transdanubian Hills] concludes. (21. March 1945)

World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers. (27. March 1945)

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

A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against then president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day. (18. October 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)

Dissolution and surrender of Nazi Germany and all its forces. (8. May 1945)

World War II: Japan surrenders to end the war. (15. August 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)

Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established. (2. April 1945)

World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland. (27. April 1945)

Second Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan formally surrenders to China. (9. September 1945)

World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk. (9. 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 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)

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)