* 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 )

Fifty men parachuted on Cusna Mountain area ( Reggio Emilia ) between 4 and 24 March 1945, under command of Major Roy Farran.

Perhaps a Sparrow: Bárdossy Defends his Wartime Record before the Americans, July 1945 ," in Hungary Fifty Years Ago, N. F.

During World War II, through February 1945, when Turkey was neutral for most of the length of the conflict, the Dardanelles were closed to the ships of the belligerent nations.

* 1945 – The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations.

Conquest's calculations excluded camp deaths before 1936 and after 1950, executions from 1939 – 1953, the vast deportation of the people of captive nations into the camps and their deaths 1939 – 1953, the massive deportation within the Soviet Union of minorities 1941 – 1944 and their deaths, and those the Soviet Red Army and secret police executed throughout Eastern Europe after their conquest during 1944 – 1945.

* 1945 – World War II: the leaders of the three Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

It was also used as a political tool by both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, which gained political-military influence and control over all Slavic-majority nations between 1945 and 1948.

When the conflict ended in 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as very powerful nations.

** Yalta Conference, wartime meeting from 4 February 1945 to 11 February 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively — for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization, intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.

Between 1924 and 1945, Benito Mussolini's Fascist government forced minorities living in Italy to assume the Italian language and culture, and worked to erase any traces of the existence of other nations on the territory of Italy.

Lend-Lease ( Public Law 77-11 ) was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with material between 1941 and 1945.

After 1945 the term was often applied to nations ruled by dictatorships backed openly by either the United States or the Soviet Union.

* In 1945, a U. S. State Department document compared the earlier efforts of Nazi Germany to mobilize the support of sympathizers in foreign nations to the superior efforts of the international communist movement at the end of World War II: " a communist party was in fact a fifth column as much as any Bund group, except that the latter were crude and ineffective in comparison with the Communists ".

Some treaties, notably the United Nations Charter ( 1945 ) Article 2, and other articles in the Charter, seek to curtail the right of member states to declare war ; as does the older Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 for those nations who ratified it.

At its publication during the Cold War ( 1945 – 91 ), the psychological realism of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold ( 1963 ) rendered it a revolutionary espionage novel by showing that the intelligence services of both the Eastern and Western nations practiced the same expedient amorality in the name of national security.

When World War II ended in 1945, the small arms that were used in the conflict still saw action in the hands of the armed forces of various nations and guerrilla movements during and after the Cold War era.

Food relief shipments to Germany had been prohibited by the U. S. until December 1945, since " they might tend to negate the policy of restricting the German standard of living to the average of the surrounding European nations ".

First, the capitulation to the Allied nations in Reims was signed on 7 May 1945, effective 23: 01 CET 8 May.

Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 – 1945, called for a Drang nach Osten to acquire territory for German colonists at the expense of eastern European nations ( Lebensraum ).

Accordingly, representatives from the " Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic " and 50 other nations founded the UN on October 24, 1945.

In 1945, Bevin advocated the creation of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, saying in the House of Commons that " There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.

After 1945 both nations joined the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) and tariffs began to steadily decline.

After World War II ended in 1945, the United Nations was founded in the hope of allaying conflicts among nations and preventing future wars.

Steel Panthers: Main Battle Tank ( WinSPMBT ) features battles from 1945 to 2020, with 90 different nations to allow for the simulation of a wide variety of different real and hypothetical conflicts.

As Korea was liberated from Japanese annexation in 1945, the country was divided into two nations: North Korea and South Korea.