WHAT HAPPENED IN 1945.
Look what happened the 1945.

The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces begin, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history. (9. March 1945)

World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power. (9. March 1945)

The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians. (10. March 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: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state, is established with Bảo Đại as its ruler. (11. March 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: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia. (15. March 1945)

World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted. (16. March 1945)

Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed. (16. March 1945)

The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture. (17. March 1945)

World War II: 1,250 American bombers attacked Berlin. (18. March 1945)

World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power. (19. March 1945)

World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed. (19. March 1945)

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

World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed. (21. March 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)

The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt. (22. March 1945)

World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces. (26. 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)

World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England. (29. March 1945)