Appointed Chief Constable of Hertfordshire Constabulary in 1944 ( but released from the army only in April 1945 ), Young now commanded an establishment of 515 at a salary of £ 1, 290.

* January 1945: Appointed CO of RCAF Base No. 63, Leeming, Yorkshire, England

** Appointed: February 9, 1945

* 1945 – An assassination attempt is made on Japan's prime minister, Kantarō Suzuki.

He persuaded St-Laurent that it was his duty to remain in government following the war in order to help with the construction of a post war international order and promoted him to the position of Secretary of State for External Affairs ( foreign minister ) in 1945, a portfolio King had previously always kept for himself.

After prime minister Kantarō Suzuki's reply to maintain silence ( mokusatsu, which was misinterpreted as a declaration that the Empire of Japan should ignore the ultimatum ), atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively.

His father was imprisoned during the 1926 General Strike for his involvement in a riot and later became Member of Parliament for Pontypool, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee, and briefly a minister in the 1945 Labour government.

George VI ( right ) with British prime minister Clement Attlee, July 1945

In 1950, Ranković as minister of interior reported that since 1945 the Yugoslav communist regime had arrested five million people.

In late 1945, Shidehara appointed Joji Matsumoto, state minister without portfolio, head of a blue-ribbon committee of constitutional scholars to suggest revisions.

* Empire of Vietnam ( March – August 1945 ) – Emperor Bảo Đại's regime with Tran Trong Kim as prime minister after proclaiming independence from France.

After the war, he served as a minister in French governments, 1945 – 1958.

He was minister of supply in Charles de Gaulle's government ( 1945 ) and minister of public works ( 1947 – 1950 ) in various governments.

After Ho Chi Minh rose to power during the August Revolution in 1945, Pham Van Dong was appointed minister of finance of the newly established government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( DRV ), a position he occupied till 1954.

As minister resident with a roving commission, Macmillan also the minister advising General Keightley of V Corps, the senior Allied commander in Austria responsible for Operation Keelhaul, which included the forced repatriation of up to 70, 000 prisoners of war to the Soviet Union and Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslavia in 1945.

* Clement Attlee, who served as Labour Party leader from 1935 to 1955 ( from 1945 to 1951 as prime minister ) was born at Putney in 1883.

De Valera chose Lemass over older cabinet colleagues to become Tánaiste ( deputy prime minister ) when Seán T. O ' Kelly was elected President of Ireland in 1945.

He also served as deputy prime minister of Ireland from 1932 to 1945, under the title Vice-President of the Executive Council from 1932 until 1937 and Tánaiste from 1937 until 1945.

In 1945, Adolf Hitler ordered his minister of armaments Albert Speer to carry out a nationwide scorched earth policy, in what became known as the Nero Decree.

He was minister of Public Works in 1945, and in 1949, Frei was elected senator for Atacama and Coquimbo.

After the course of the war turned against Japan, and the decision was made to accept the Potsdam Declaration, Emperor Hirohito appointed Prince Higashikuni to the position of prime minister on 16 August 1945, replacing Admiral Kantarō Suzuki.

However, largely because of his pro-American reputation, he was appointed to serve as Japan ’ s second post-war prime minister, from 9 October 1945 to 22 May 1946.

He continued as prime minister in exile until the government returned to Norway 31 May 1945 and resigned on 25 June, when Haakon VII appointed Einar Gerhardsen to head an interim government composed of all political parties.

Prince Phetsarath Rattanavongsa ( Somdej Chao Maha Oupahat Pethsarath Rattanavongsa lit: His Highness ( the ) Vice-King Phetsarath Rattanavongsa ) ( 19 January 1890 – 14 October 1959 ) was prime minister of Laos from 1942 to 1945, and was the first and last vice-king of the Kingdom of Laos.

The Bohrs returned to Denmark in 1945, and Aage resumed his university education, graduating with a master's degree in 1946, with a thesis concerned with some aspects of atomic stopping problems.

After teaching at the University of Lyon from 1945 to 1948, Merleau-Ponty lectured on child psychology and education at the Sorbonne from 1949 to 1952.

According to the Masurian Institute the Masurian members of resistance against Nazi Germany who survived the war, became active in 1945 in the region, working in Olsztyn in cooperation with new state authorities in administration, education and cultural affairs

The largest institution of higher education in Toruń, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń serves over 40 thousand students and was founded in 1945, based on the Toruń Scientific Society, Stefan Batory University in Wilno, and Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv.

In 1945, at the request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he recommended that a foundation be established by Congress to serve as a focal point for the Federal Government's support and encouragement of research and education in science and technology as well as the development of a national science policy.

Conductive education was developed in Hungary from 1945 based on the work of András Pető.

After completing his secondary education at local schools, he graduated in law at the Free University of Amsterdam in September 1945.

Academies and seminaries for basic education were established in 1800. Notable schools include Cayuga Lake Academy which was founded in 1797, chartered by New York State Regents in 1801 and remained and its second structure built in 1835 remained until the building was destroyed by fire on April 19, 1945.

In 1945 he became the first director of the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis and left this position in 1955 to focus on education.

Tereshkova began school in 1945 at the age of eight, but left school in 1953 and continued her education by correspondence courses.

Richard Wright was catapulted to fame by the publication in subsequent years of his now widely studied short story, " The Man Who Was Almost a Man " ( 1939 ), and his controversial second novel, Native Son ( 1940 ), and his legacy was cemented by the 1945 publication of Black Boy, a work in which Wright drew on his childhood and mostly autodidactic education in the segregated South, fictionalizing and exaggerating some elements as he saw fit.

The first attempt to reform the education system in Ontario was initiated in 1945, with the Royal Commission on Education, which proposed a three-tiered education system with six years of elementary education, followed by four years of secondary education, and culminating in three years of junior colleges.

1945: The decree of 19 February 1945 granted both institutions the title of Ecoles normales préparatoires à l ' enseignement secondaire ( institutions of preparation for secondary education ).

His father, Kim Beazley Snr, was the Labor MP for Fremantle from 1945 to 1977 and education minister in the Whitlam Government ( 1972 – 75 ).

During the Nazi era ( 1933 – 1945 ), teaching of Nazi ideologies was added to the education programme ; however, the basic education system remained unchanged.

At the beginning of 1945, all these schools were grouped together in a special arrangement with the University of London and secondary education was moved elsewhere.

In the tradition of his philopshical and academic focus of promoting civil rights in education, Knox worked alongside Thurgood Marshall in the campaign that led to the desegregation of the schools in the District of Columbia and also served as the Chairman of Education for the NAACP from 1945 to 1962.

Butler became head of international education and communication, founded the European branch of the Endowment headquartered in Paris, and was President of the Endowment from 1925 to 1945.

As one of the oldest universities in Germany, it reached a peak in terms of wealth and reputation in the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, which was, however, set back by two World Wars ( 1914 – 1918, 1939 – 1945 ) and the Communist education doctrine and private ownership reforms of the former East Germany ( 1945 – 1990 ).