WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MAY 1945
Find out what all happened February to May 1945

World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma. (21. March 1945)

World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga. (21. February 1945)

World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna; Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig. (30. March 1945)

World War II: the Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end. (6. April 1945)

World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans. (14. February 1945)

World War II: American troops capture Kassel. (4. April 1945)

Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations. (25. April 1945)

World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2. (11. March 1945)

World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis. (8. April 1945)

World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea. (4. February 1945)

World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive. (14. February 1945)

World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody. (23. May 1945)

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

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

World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces. (7. April 1945)

World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk. (9. April 1945)

World War II: The R.A.F.'s first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany. (14. March 1945)

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

Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany. (18. April 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)