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1945 in military history
- Berlin Declaration (1945)The Berlin Declaration of the 5th of June 1945 did something that the German Instrument of Surrender of the 8th of May had not done: it formally transferred…
- Surrender of JapanAt 8:15 in the morning on the 6th of August 1945, a single aircraft released a single bomb over Hiroshima. Sixteen hours later, President Harry S.
- Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and NagasakiThe atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of them civilians. On the 6th of August 1945, the United States…
- End of World War II in AsiaAt 3:24 on the morning of the 2nd of September 1945, a ceremony in Tokyo Bay brought the deadliest conflict in human history to its formal close in Asia.
- Death of Benito MussoliniBenito Mussolini was shot at the wall of the Villa Belmonte in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra. It was the afternoon of the 28th of April 1945.
- End of World War II in EuropeThe end of World War II in Europe came down to a single signature, placed in the early hours of the 7th of May 1945, in a schoolhouse in Reims, France.
- Hirohito surrender broadcastAt precisely noon on the 15th of August, 1945, a radio announcer instructed the Japanese nation to stand for an announcement "of the highest importance." The…
- Operation PlutoIn early April 1942, Lord Louis Mountbatten approached Geoffrey Lloyd with a desperate question. Could an oil pipeline be laid across the English Channel?
- Battle of BerlinAt 8:30 in the morning on the 22nd of April 1945, ninety-six shells fell on the centre of Berlin in the space of a few minutes.
- Trinity (nuclear test)Trinity was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, and it happened at 5:29 in the morning on the 16th of July 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto desert of…