1945
January 1, 1945 - Germans withdraw from Ardennes
January 17, 1945 - Soviets capture Warsaw
January 26, 1945 - Japanese retreat to Chinese coast and Soviets liberate Auschwitz
February 4-11, 1945: Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three'
Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe
February 19, 1945 - US landings on Iwo Jima
April 1, 1945 - U.S. troops encircle Germans in the Ruhr
April 12, 1945 - Allies liberate Buchenwald and Belsen concentration camps
April 12, 1945 - President Roosevelt dies and Harry Truman becomes President
May 8: VE Day - Victory in Europe. Germany surrenders to the Red Army in Berlin
July: Potsdam Conference - Germany was officially partitioned into four zones of occupation.
August 6: The United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima (20 kiloton bomb 'Little Boy' kills 80,000)
August 8: Russia declares war on Japan
August 9: The United States drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki in Japan (the 22 kiloton 'Fat Man' bomb killed 70,000 people)
August 14 : The Japanese surrender at the end of WW2
August 15: Emperor surrender broadcast - VJ Day
September 2: WW2 ends
January 17, 1945 - Soviets capture Warsaw
January 26, 1945 - Japanese retreat to Chinese coast and Soviets liberate Auschwitz
February 4-11, 1945: Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three'
Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe
February 19, 1945 - US landings on Iwo Jima
April 1, 1945 - U.S. troops encircle Germans in the Ruhr
April 12, 1945 - Allies liberate Buchenwald and Belsen concentration camps
April 12, 1945 - President Roosevelt dies and Harry Truman becomes President
May 8: VE Day - Victory in Europe. Germany surrenders to the Red Army in Berlin
July: Potsdam Conference - Germany was officially partitioned into four zones of occupation.
August 6: The United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima (20 kiloton bomb 'Little Boy' kills 80,000)
August 8: Russia declares war on Japan
August 9: The United States drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki in Japan (the 22 kiloton 'Fat Man' bomb killed 70,000 people)
August 14 : The Japanese surrender at the end of WW2
August 15: Emperor surrender broadcast - VJ Day
September 2: WW2 ends