* 1939 – 1945, the Second Battle of the Atlantic.

* 1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.

* 1945 – World War II: the Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.

* 1945 – Neal Boortz, American radio personality

* 1945 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office ; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.

* 1945 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization ( d. 2006 )

* 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day.

* 1945 – Annie Dillard, American writer

* 1945 – Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist ( d. 2001 )

* 1945 – Michael J. Smith, American astronaut ( d. 1986 )

* 1871 – Theodore Dreiser, American author ( d. 1945 )

* 1905 – Aris Velouchiotis, Greek military leader ( d. 1945 )

* 1945 – Jan Sloot, Dutch inventor ( d. 1999 )

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

* 1945 – Ron Jones, English director ( d. 1993 )

* 1945 – Andy Messersmith, American baseball player

* 1945 – World War II: Nagasaki, Japan is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar.

* 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.

* 1945 – Barbara Delinsky, American author

* 1945 – Aleksandr Gorelik, Russian figure skater ( d. 2012 )

* 1945 – Posy Simmonds, English cartoonist

* 1866 – Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded Fiat S. p. A ( d. 1945 )

* 1945 – Lars Engqvist, Swedish politician

* 1945 – Robin Jackman, English cricketer

* 1897 – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

* 1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.

This increase was a result of the increased number of states, the fragility of states formed after 1945, the decline in interstate war, and the Cold War rivalry.

The Cold War ( 1945 – 1989 ) provided a global network of material and ideological support that perpetuated civil wars, which were mainly fought in weak ex-colonial states, rather than the relatively strong states that were aligned with the Warsaw Pact and North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

As a consequence of the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 and the onset of the Cold War in 1947, the country was split between the two global blocs in the East and West, a period known as the division of Germany.

From 1945 to 1990, during the Cold War, the headquarters of the Soviet forces in Poland, the so-called Northern Group of Forces, was located in the city.

# Anti-Communism: This was included as a filter in the original 1988 edition of the book, but Chomsky argues that since the end of the Cold War ( 1945 – 91 ), anticommunism was replaced by the " War on Terror ", as the major social control mechanism.

* 1945 – Cold War: Operation Paperclip – the United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.

* Gormly, James L. From Potsdam to the Cold War: Big Three Diplomacy, 1945 – 1947.

The metamorphosis of the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ) into the Soviet – American Cold War ( 1945 – 91 ) gave impetus to spy novelists.

In his novels, Semyonov covered much Soviet intelligence history, ranging from the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 1923 ), through the Great Patriotic War ( 1941 – 45 ), to the Russo – American Cold War ( 1945 – 91 ).

* 1945 – Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.

* 1945 – Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.

From 1945 to 1947, when the Cold War did not yet begin, the Thai economy continued to suffer greatly from the Second World War.

The Cold War ( 1945 – 90 ): NATO vs. the Warsaw Pact, the status of forces in 1973

Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945 – 1961.

A 2007 episode of the CBS television crime drama Cold Case, titled " Family 8108 ", dealt with the 1945 murder of a Japanese American man in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after he and his family were released from Manzanar.

Afterwards, in 1945, the USA and the USSR fought the Cold War ( 1945 – 1991 ) for control of the global European empires of France, Britain, the Netherlands, et al., which were politically destroyed by the WWII global warfare.

In the post – Cold War ( 1945 – 1991 ) world, the French Socialist politician Hubert Védrine described the USA as a hegemonic hyperpower, because of its unilateral military actions worldwide, especially against Iraq ; while the US political scientists John Mearsheimer and Joseph Nye counter that the USA is not a true hegemon because it has neither the financial nor the military resources to impose a proper, formal, global hegemony.

* Beisner, Robert L. " Patterns of Peril: Dean Acheson Joins the Cold Warriors, 1945 – 46.

* Leffler, Melvyn P. " Strategy, Diplomacy, and the Cold War: the United States, Turkey, and NATO, 1945 – 1952 " Journal of American History 1985 71 ( 4 ): 807 – 825.

* Admirable Radical: Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945 – 1970 ( 2010 ), Kent State University Press by Carl Mirra ISBN 978-1-60635-051-5

The Cold War as Rhetoric: The Beginnings, 1945 – 1950 ( 1991 ) online edition