WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO AUGUST 1945
Find out what all happened May to August 1945

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

Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time). (14. August 1945)

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

Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces. (30. August 1945)

The US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb. (26. July 1945)

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

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

The Halifax Riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax. (8. May 1945)

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

HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the Second World War (26. July 1945)

The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begins. (23. 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 Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany. (26. July 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)

Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria. (31. July 1945)

The Yugoslav partisans free Trieste. (1. May 1945)

Manhattan Project: the Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. (16. July 1945)

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