WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO JULY 1945
Find out what all happened June to July 1945

The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power. (5. June 1945)

King Haakon VII of Norway returned with his family to Oslo after five years in exile. (7. June 1945)

The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco. (26. June 1945)

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

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

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

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

The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (15. June 1945)

The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end. (22. June 1945)

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

World War II: Filipino troops of the 15th, 66th and 121st Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon. (14. June 1945)

World War II: The liberation of the Philippines is declared. (5. July 1945)

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

The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power. (26. July 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)

The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany. (26. July 1945)

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

Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union. (29. June 1945)