CHRONOLOGY
1945
Dated events from the historical database.
1945-01-12 — Vistula–Oder Offensive1945-01-16 — Renault Nationalised1945-01-20 — First K-25 Production Cell Becomes Operational1945-01-27 — Liberation of Auschwitz1945-02-04 — Yalta Conference1945-02-05 — Hanford Sends Its First Shipment of Plutonium to Los Alamos1945-02-13 — Bombing of Dresden1945-02-19 — Battle of Iwo Jima1945-03-07 — Crossing of the Rhine at Remagen1945-03-09 — Firebombing of Tokyo1945-04-01 — Battle of Okinawa1945-04-12 — Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt1945-04-16 — Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation1945-04-25 — Meeting on the Elbe1945-04-25 — San Francisco Conference Opens1945-04-30 — Suicide of Adolf Hitler1945-05-07 — German Surrender Signed at Reims1945-05-08 — German Surrender Takes Effect1945-06-22 — Battle of Okinawa Ends1945-06-22 — First Flight of the Vickers Viking Passenger Aircraft1945-06-26 — UN Charter Signed1945-06-28 — Willow Run Produces Its Final B-241945-07-16 — Trinity Nuclear Test1945-07-17 — Potsdam Conference1945-08-06 — Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima1945-08-08 — Soviet Union Enters the War against Japan1945-08-09 — Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki1945-08-14 — Japan Agrees to Surrender1945-08-15 — Japan Announces Surrender1945-08-17 — Indonesian Declaration of Independence1945-09-02 — Formal Surrender of Japan1945-09-05 — ZEEP Reactor Reaches Criticality for the First Time1945-09-20 — Rolls-Royce Trent Makes Its First Flight as an Early Turboprop Engine1945-09-25 — First Flight of the de Havilland Dove1945-10-24 — UN Charter Enters into Force1945-10-24 — United Nations Formally Established1945-11-16 — UNESCO Constitution Adopted1945-11-20 — Nuremberg Trials Begin1945-12-27 — Series Production of Volkswagen Resumes at Wolfsburg