1945: When We Were Kids

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	1945 A Brief History of the events that shaped 1945.

January
1st	Germans begin to withdraw from the Ardennes.
16th	U.S. 1st and 3rd Armies link up after a month long separation during the Battle of the Bulge.
17th	Soviet troops capture Warsaw.
26th	Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz.
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February
4th	Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta.
13th	Dresden is destroyed by a firestorm after Allied bombing raids.
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March
6th	Last German offensive of the war begins to defend oil fields in Hungary.
7th	Allies take Cologne and establish a bridge across the Rhine at Remagen.
30th	Soviet troops capture Danzig.
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April
1st	U.S. troops encircle Germans in the Ruhr
1st	Allied Offensive in Northern Italy.
12th	Allies liberate Buchenwald and Belsen concentration camps.
12th	President Roosevelt dies. Truman becomes President.
16th	Soviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin; Americans enter Nuremberg.
18th	German forces in the Ruhr surrender.
21st	Soviets reach Berlin.
28th	Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans.
28th	The Allied forces retake Venice.
29th	U.S. 7th Army liberates Dachau.
30th	Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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May
2nd	German troops in Italy surrender.
7th	Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies.
8th	V-E (Victory in Europe) Day.
9th	Hermann Göring is captured by members of the U.S. 7th Army.
23rd	SS Reichsführer Himmler commits suicide.
23rd	German High Command and Provisional Government imprisoned.
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June
5th	Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government.
26th	United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
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July
1st	U.S., British, and French troops move into Berlin.
16th	First U.S. atomic bomb test; Potsdam Conference begins.
26th	Clement Atlee succeeds Churchill as British Prime Minister.
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August
6th	First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.
8th	Soviets declares war on Japan and invade Manchuria.
9th	Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan.
14th	Japanese agree to unconditional surrender.
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September
2nd	Japanese sign the surrender agreement.
2nd	V-J (Victory over Japan) Day.
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October
24th	United Nations is officially born.

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November
20th	Nuremberg war crimes trials begin.

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