When he died in August 1945 he left the remainder to the National Trust.

When the Attlee Government was voted out of office in 1951, the economy had been improved compared to 1945.

When the Cubs clinched the Eastern Division with a Sutcliffe complete-game 2-hitter at Pittsburgh on September 23, the franchise had its first title of any kind since 1945.

When the war ended in May 1945, as many as two million former Russian citizens were forcefully repatriated into the USSR.

* " When H. G. Wells Split the Atom: A 1914 Preview of 1945 ", by Freda Kirchwey, in The Nation, posted 4 Sep 2003 ( original 18 Aug 1945 issue ).

When asked to move to left field in 1940 to make room for Rudy York, he worked tirelessly to master that position as well and reduced his errors in the outfield from 15 in 1940 to 0 in 1945.

When the war ended in August 1945, many physicists gradually returned to peacetime research.

When, by July 1945, the Mladá Boleslav factory had been reconstructed, production of Škoda's first post-World War II car, the 1101 series began.

When the occupation ended in 1945, Korean martial arts schools ( kwans ) began to open in Korea under various influences.

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

When Italy quit the war in 1943, German forces occupied most of Northern Italy until 1945.

When in 1945 Minnesota Communists tried to seize control of the new party, Humphrey became an engaged anti-Communist and led the successful fight to oust the Communists from the DFL.

When the Allies met in Potsdam on 17 July 1945 at the Potsdam Conference, a chaotic refugee situation faced the occupying powers.

When the war ended in May 1945, British and U. S. civilian authorities ordered their military forces in Europe to deport to the Soviet Union millions of former residents of the USSR, including many persons who had left Russia and established different citizenship decades before.

When he was 11 he went to Elmhurst Grammar School in Street, and when his father was promoted to head postmaster in Ely in 1945, Polkinghorne was transferred to The Perse School, Cambridge.

When the Japanese surrender was announced on 15 August 1945, Puyi was " asked " to abdicate, which he did.

When Patel was released on 15 June 1945 he realised that the British were preparing proposals to transfer power to Indian hands.

When the Japanese surrendered in 1945, Emperor Bảo Đại abdicated, and Viet Cong leader Hồ Chí Minh proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( DRV ) in Hanoi.

When Japan surrendered in August 1945, the Japanese handed over control of some public buildings and weapons requisitioned from the French army to the Việt Minh, now led by Hồ Chí Minh, after turning in the Vietnamese nationalist leaders of the Việt Minh to the French colonialists.

When Bảo Đại, the last Emperor of Vietnam, abdicated in August 1945 at Huế he is recorded to have surrendered the royal insignia to the new communist authorities.

When Hawker Siddeley purchased Victory Aircraft in 1945, Smye became the first employee of A. V.

When film director Michael Curtiz adapted Mildred Pierce for the big screen in 1945, he lived up to the cinemagoers ' and the producers ' expectations by adding a murder that is not in the novel.

When Richards and three other editors were arrested at the beginning of 1945 for attempting " to undermine the affections of members of His Majesty's Forces.

* Así que pasen cinco años ( When Five Years Pass: written 1931, first production 1945 )

* 1945 – World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.

Famous victory marches around or under the Arc have included the Germans in 1871, the French in 1919, the Germans in 1940, and the French and Allies in 1944 and 1945.

The Germans launched a surprise counter offensive in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 which was turned back in early 1945 by the Allies after Eisenhower repositioned his armies and improved weather allowed the Air Force to engage.

Almost all Germans who returned or remained were expelled as the city was annexed by the Soviet Union and ceded to Poland in spring 1945, a decision by Stalin with full consent of the western Allies in the Potsdam Conference.

In 1945 the Allies commanded full disarmament of the country, private ownership of firearms was not allowed until after 1956 when restrictions effectively returned to 1928 policy.

Between 14 November 1945 and 3 October 1946, the Allies established an International Military Tribunal ( IMT ) to try 22 of 24 major Nazi war criminals and six groups for crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

In 1955, the USSR declared the Soviet occupation zone – the historic middle portion of Germany – to be a sovereign state named the Deutsche Demokratische Republik ( German Democratic Republic, established in 1949 ), while the Red Army and the Western Allies ' occupation forces remained in place under the tripartite Potsdam Agreement ( 1945 ) which established the Allied Occupation of Germany.

To compensate Poland for the USSR's annexation of its eastern provinces, the Allies provisionally established Poland's post-war western border at the Oder – Neisse line at the Yalta Conference ( 1945 ).

In the spring of 1945 Germany itself was invaded from the east by the Soviet Union and from the west by the other Allies respectively ; After Red Army conquered the Reichstag in Berlin, Hitler committed suicide and Germany surrendered in early May ending the war in Europe.

In response to Himmler's attempts to open peace overtures with the Allies in 1945 through Count Bernadotte, Churchill enquired if they should negotiate with Himmler ' and bump him off later.

Following the war, the Dutch fought Indonesian independence forces after Japan surrendered to the Allies in 1945.

By the beginning of 1945, with the Soviets on the Oder and the Western Allies preparing to cross the Rhine, Goebbels could no longer disguise the fact that defeat was inevitable.

* 1945 – World War II: Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies.

* 1945 – The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.

After the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ), and the Tehran, Casablanca and Yalta Conferences, the Allies by the Berlin Declaration of June 5th, 1945 had assumed supreme authority over Germany.

Moreover, towards concluding the Pacific Theatre of War, the Potsdam Conference issued the Potsdam Declaration, the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender ( 26 July 1945 ) wherein the Western Allies ( UK, US, USSR ) and the Nationalist China of General Chiang Kai-shek asked Japan to surrender or be destroyed.

The persecution of the Jews ended in Southern Italy ( controlled by the Kingdom of Italy ) after the armistice with the Allies ( 8 September 1943 ), while in Central and Northern Italy ( controlled by the Italian Social Republic, a puppet state of Nazi Germany led by Mussolini ) the persecution continued until the definitive fall of Mussolini's regime ( 25 April 1945 ).

From 1945 to 1951, a policy of industrial disarmament was pursued in Germany by the Allies ( see the industrial plans for Germany ).

The total victory of the Allies over the Axis in 1945 ended the conflict.

During the final stages of World War II the future of Europe was decided between the Allies in the 1945 Yalta Conference, between the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Premier of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin.

Through the Yalta Conference and Potsdam Conference of 1945 the victorious Allies divided East Prussia into the two parts now known as Oblast Kaliningrad ( in Russia ) and the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship ( in Poland ).

Florey's research team investigated the large-scale production of the mould and efficient extraction of the active ingredient, succeeding to the point where, by 1945, penicillin production was an industrial process for the Allies in World War II.

The port city was also the main objective of German armies in December ; the inability of the Allies to end the war in 1944 meant that Allied troops had to winter in Belgium, during which time the Ardennes Offensive was launched by the Germans, resulting in heavy fighting on Belgian soil that lasted into 1945.

After the capitulation of the Wehrmacht in May 1945 the Allies occupied Germany in the borders as they were on 31 December 1937, as agreed to in the Berlin declaration of 5 June 1945.