WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 1945
Find out what all happened May to October 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)

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 Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being. (30. August 1945)

Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire. (17. August 1945)

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

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

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

World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. (2. September 1945)

The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies. (31. August 1945)

World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. (30. July 1945)

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

Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day. (28. June 1945)

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

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

Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei. (10. June 1945)

World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin. (1. May 1945)

Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London. (19. September 1945)

The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begins. (23. July 1945)

Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. (2. September 1945)