* 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 )

Alexander Roda Roda ( born Sándor Friedrich Rosenfeld ; April 13, 1872 – August 20, 1945 ) was Jewish Austrian writer who spent most of his life working and living in Osijek and Slavonia.

With the backing of Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ), he became the first non-Communist mayor of Osijek after 1945.

It is considered that Glas Slavonije is successor of Hrvatski list, newspapers from Osijek, that have existed since 1920 to 1945.

Moreover, in Yugoslavia there existed the Jasenovac concentration camp ( August 1941 – April 1945 ), which was the only central extermination camp outside of Poland, and the only one not operated by Nazis, but by the fascist Ustaše forces of the Independent State of Croatia, the majority of whose victims were Orthodox Christian Serbs, Roma, and Jews.

In the entirety of the war the Partisans in Bosnia were 64. 1 % Serb, from 1941 to 1945 the Partisans in Croatia were 28 % Serb.

* Independent State of Croatia ( 1941 – 1945 )-The Independent State of Croatia ( Nezavisna Država Hrvatska or NDH ) was a German and Italian puppet régime.

From 1945, it was part of the People's Republic of Croatia within new socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

From 1941 to 1945, Vinkovci was part of the Independent State of Croatia.

From 1941 to 1945, Požega was part of the Independent State of Croatia.

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The first head of government and Prime Minister of Croatia ( then the People's Republic of Croatia by full name ) was Vladimir Bakarić ( Predsjednik Vlade ), who assumed the position on 14 April 1945.

The only brief exception was in the puppet " Independent State of Croatia ", 1941 to 1945, when totalitarian dictatorship of Ante Pavelić pushed purist tendencies to extremes.

In December 2006, a controversy arose when a video was published showing Mesić during a speech in Australia in the early 1990s, where he said that the Croats " won a victory on April 10th " ( when the fascist aligned Independent State of Croatia was formed ) " as well as in 1945 " ( when the communist anti-fascists prevailed and the Socialist Republic of Croatia was formed ), as well as that Croatia needed to apologize to no one for the Jasenovac concentration camp ( i. e. the WWII Holocaust against Serbs and Jews ).

In 1945 Yugoslavia was indeed federalised with Croatia becoming a republic, but its nominal autonomy was of little importance with KPJ being heavily centralised and KPH-renamed into SKH in 1952-being its integral part.

Several sensationalist and anti-Catholic books published during the 1980s and 1990s, such as Unholy Trinity: How the Vatican's Nazi Networks Betrayed Western Intelligence to the Soviets, Genocide in Satellite Croatia 1941 – 1945 and The Vatican's Holocaust, were highly critical of the Institute for Works of Religion's historical relations with anti-communist governments and especially with the Independent State of Croatia during World War II.

Raven Shields story begins in 1945, as two members of the Nazi-sponsored Ustaše regime in the Independent State of Croatia manage to escape the country with huge amounts of Holocaust-era loot just before Allied troops move into the capital.

From 1945 to 1991 Poreč was a city of SR Croatia, a part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Syrmia has been a part of the Roman Empire, the Hun Empire, the Ostrogothic Kingdom, the Gepid Kingdom, the Lombard state, the Byzantine Empire, the Avar Khaganate, the Frankish Empire, the Bulgarian Empire, Pannonian Croatia, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire, Austria-Hungary, the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, the Kingdom of Serbia, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia which, upon advice from the Ðilas Commission, assigned the eastern part of the region to the Federated Republic of Serbia and the western part to the Federated Republic of Croatia in 1945.

In 1945 there had been created new borders in this area between federal states of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia and, since then, Eastern Syrmia ( formerly part of Danube Banovina ), together with Bačka and Banat, has been part of the Serbian Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, while Western Syrmia ( formerly part of Sava Banovina ) has been part of Croatia.

The present international border was drawn in 1945 by the Đilas commission, as the divide between the Yugoslav constituent republic of Croatia and the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, itself part of Serbia, within Yugoslavia.