During Dulles's first two years in office, while Republicans ran the Senate, the Department was at the mercy of men who had thirsted for its blood since 1945.

During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

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.

During the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ) and World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Special Research Units of the Imperial Japanese Army, such as Unit 731, conducted human experimentation on thousands of Chinese, among others.

* A bust and plaque located at his last residence, in New York City at 309 W. 57th Street, inscribed: " The Great Hungarian Composer / Béla Bartók / ( 1881 – 1945 ) / Made His Home In This House / During the Last Year of His Life ".

During the time of Nazi Germany ( 1933 – 1945 ), the Nazi Party enjoyed particular popularity and support among the town's population.

During the siege of February 1945 the city infrastructure was 65 % destroyed, including most of the historical city center.

During the period of 1945 – 1950, the government adopted policies which were intended to consolidate power.

* 1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U. S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.

During the winter of 1945 to 1946 Orwell made several hopeless and unwelcome marriage proposals to younger women, including Celia Kirwan ( who was later to become Arthur Koestler's sister-in-law ), Ann Popham who happened to live in the same block of flats and Sonia Brownell, one of Connolly's coterie at the Horizon office.

During World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ) the Rock was again turned into a fortress and the civilian residents of Gibraltar were evacuated.

During the summer of 1945, a Soviet cipher clerk had reused a one time pad to transmit intelligence traffic.

During the Japanese occupation of Hainan ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Li suffered heavily.

During 1945, Friedman submitted Incomes from Independent Professional Practice ( co-authored with Kuznets and completed during 1940 ) to Columbia as his doctoral dissertation.

During the German occupation of 1939 – 1945, Poznań was incorporated into the Third Reich as the capital of Reichsgau Wartheland.

During World War II, Bearden joined the United States Army, serving from 1942 until 1945.

During the Second World War ( 1939 – 1945 ) Nazi Germany effectively enslaved many people, both those considered undesirable and citizens of countries they conquered.

During wartime the National Council ( 1939 – 1945 ) was established to represent the legislature as part of the Polish Government in Exile.

During the Japanese occupation of Korea ( 1910 – 1945 ), all facets of ethnic Korean identity were banned or suppressed.

During 1901 Baudot's code was modified by Donald Murray ( 1865 – 1945 ), prompted by his development of a typewriter-like keyboard.

During the German occupation, which lasted from 1940 – 1945, the university ’ s rector, Didrik Arup Seip, was imprisoned, and the university was placed under the management of a rector appointed by the Norwegian Nazi Party, NS.

During the Continuation War, Kekkonen served as director of the Karelian Evacuees ' Welfare Centre from 1940 to 1943 and as the Ministry of Finance's commissioner for coordination from 1943 to 1945, tasked with rationalising public administration.

During his 72 years of Imamat ( 1885 – 1957 ), the community celebrated his Golden ( 1937 ), Diamond ( 1946 ) and Platinum ( 1954 ) Jubilees.

During Lee A. DuBridge's tenure as Caltech's president ( 1946 – 1969 ), Caltech's faculty doubled and the campus tripled in size.

During the middle of the 20th century the French reluctantly began to accede to reasonable requests, and in 1946 Comoros had become a separately administered colony from Madagascar.

During the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 54 ), the Foreign Legion saw its numbers swell due to the incorporation of Second World War veterans who couldn't adapt to civilian life.

During 1946, Friedman accepted an offer to teach economic theory at the University of Chicago ( a position opened by departure of his former professor Jacob Viner to Princeton University ).

During Siodmak's tenure, Universal made the most of the noir style, but the capstone was The Killers in 1946.

During his long association with Knoll he designed many important pieces of furniture including the " Grasshopper " lounge chair and ottoman ( 1946 ), the " Womb " chair and ottoman ( 1948 ), the " Womb " settee ( 1950 ), side and arm chairs ( 1948 – 1950 ), and his most famous " Tulip " or " Pedestal " group ( 1956 ), which featured side and arm chairs, dining, coffee and side tables, as well as a stool.

During the 1946 – 54 war against the French Union forces, the Việt Minh, having gained control of parts of southern Vietnam, initiated land reform.

During World War II US B-29 bomber attack destroyed Tōkai Seiki's Yamashita plant in 1944, and the Itawa plant collapsed in the 1945 Mikawa earthquake, and Soichiro Honda sold the salvageable remains of the company to Toyota after the war for ¥ 450, 000, and used the proceeds to found the Honda Technical Research Institute in October 1946.

During World War II, The World Almanac could boast that it was read by GIs all over the world: between 1944 and 1946, at the request of the U. S. Government, The World Almanac had special print runs of 100, 000 to 150, 000 copies for distribution to the armed forces.

During his time in Norway, he began work on his seminal novel Cry, The Beloved Country, which he would complete over the course of his journey, finishing it on Christmas Eve in San Francisco in 1946.

During the Great Depression, the poultry farms closed, until around 1946, when Bill and Ann Hollash moved to Brandon and started Brandon Egg ( which became Hollash Eggs ), the largest egg producers in eastern Hillsborough County.

During World War II, the Dennison Canteen operated from March 19, 1942 to April 8, 1946.

During World War II, Stevens joined the U. S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946, under General Eisenhower.

During a press conference on 10 July 1946 in Bombay, Nehru made a controversial statement to the effect that the Congress may " change or modify " the federal arrangement agreed upon for independent India for the betterment towards a united India ; this claim outraged many.

During World War II, Prokhorov fought in the infantry, was wounded twice in battles, and was awarded three medals, including the Medal For Courage in 1946.

During his time in office he held the Military Department and was President of the Confederation twice in 1946 and 1952.

During this time he twice was appointed Prime Minister as well, first from 13 to 31 March 1946 – the shortest government in Belgian history, and again from March 1947 to August 1949.

During the late 1940s and 1950s Schuricht conducted throughout Switzerland, at the re-opening of the Salzburg Festival in 1946, in Paris, and at the festivals of Holland, Lucerne, Aix-en-Provence and Montreux.

During World War II the branch tunnels and Aldwych station were temporarily closed ( between 1940 and 1946 ) and used for storage and as an air-raid shelter.

During the Second World War, from 1940 to 1946, St Dunstan's was based in the town.

During private cabinet meetings with President Truman in 1946 and 1947, Forrestal had argued against partition of Palestine on the grounds it would infuriate Arab countries who supplied oil needed for the U. S. economy and national defense.

During World War II under the Japanese Occupation, The Philippine Commonwealth Army has the re-establishment of the Military General Headquarters, Military Bases and Camps here in the province of Nueva Ecija on 1942 to 1946 before the engagements of the Anti-Japanese Imperial Military Operations in Central Luzon include Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac, Zambales, Bulacan and Northern Tayabas ( now.