* 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 – 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 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender ( August 15 in Japan Standard Time ).

* 1945 – World War II: Japan surrenders to end the war.

* Liberation Day, celebrates the independence of Korea from Japan in 1945:

* Independence Day, celebrates the proclamation of Indonesia's independence from Japan in 1945.

* 1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.

The southern half of Sakhalin was acquired by Japan as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 05, but at the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan and took possession of the Kuril islands and southern Sakhalin.

* 1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.

Category: 1945 in Japan

Following the defeat of Japan in 1945, the war between the KMT and the CPC resumed, after failed attempts at reconciliation and a negotiated settlement.

Following the end of the war in Europe in May 1945, Attlee and Churchill wanted the coalition government to last until Japan had been defeated.

Despite some early cooperative military successes against Japan, by the time that the Japanese surrendered in 1945 neither the CPC nor the KMT trusted each other or were actively cooperating.

In 1945, when Japan surrendered, Chiang's Chongqing government was ill-equipped and ill-prepared to reassert its authority in formerly Japanese-occupied China, and asked the Japanese to postpone their surrender until Kuomintang ( KMT ) authority could arrive to take over.

For some, Chiang was a national hero who led the victorious Northern Expedition against the Beiyang Warlords in 1927, achieving Chinese unification, and who subsequently led China to ultimate victory against Japan in 1945.

* Order of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek supplementing the Act of Surrender – by Japan on September 9, 1945

* 1945 – Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.

Danny Kaye on USO tour at Sasebo, Japan, 25 October 1945.

Japan took Vietnam from France and the Axis-occupied Vietnam was declared an empire by the Japanese in March 1945.

The completed films included the seven-episode Why We Fight series — consisting of Prelude to War ( 1942 ), The Nazis Strike ( 1942 ), Divide and Conquer ( 1943 ), The Battle of Britain ( 1943 ), The Battle of Russia ( 1943 ), The Battle of China ( 1944 ), War Comes to America ( 1945 ) – plus Know Your Enemy: Japan ( 1945 ), Tunisian Victory ( 1945 ), and Two Down and One to Go ( 1945 ) that do not bear the Why We Fight banner ; as well as the African-American related, The Negro Soldier ( 1944 ).

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

Training at the airfield came to a halt on 14 August 1945, when the Japanese unconditionally surrendered.

The fortress under command of German Admiral Friedrich Frisius eventually unconditionally surrendered to the commander of the Czechoslovak forces, Brigade General Alois Liška, on 9 May 1945.

He surrendered unconditionally to the Americans, British, and Soviets on May 8, 1945 (" VE Day ").

When Germany unconditionally surrendered on 7 May 1945, the division was conducting occupation duties in northern Germany, which it continued to do until it was relieved by British troops on 14 June.

The war ended on 9 May 1945, when Germany's armed forces surrendered unconditionally following the Battle of Berlin ( also known as Berlin Offensive ), a strategic operation executed by the Red Army.

Dönitz however, sued for immediate peace, and Germany surrendered unconditionally in northwest Germany, Holland, and Denmark on 5 May 1945.

After great loss, the city was unconditionally surrendered on 13 February 1945.

The siege ended when the city unconditionally surrendered on 13 February 1945.

The Soviets, along with the Polish, captured Berlin in a very large-scale bloody battle, and the Germans finally surrendered on May 7, 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.

Hamburg surrendered without a fight to British Forces on 3 May 1945.

Germany surrendered effective 8 May 1945 with the German Instrument of Surrender, ending the European theater of World War II.

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

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, President of the United States | U. S. President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945. At the Potsdam Conference from July to August 1945, though Germany had surrendered months earlier, instead of withdrawing Soviet forces from Eastern European countries, Stalin had not moved those forces.

Atlanta was operating off the coast of Honshū when the Japanese surrendered on August 15, 1945.

Nauru was finally set free from the Japanese on 13 September 1945, when Captain Solda, the commander of all the Japanese troops on Nauru, surrendered the island to the Royal Australian Navy and Army.

The last group of Japanese soldiers surrendered on Saipan on December 1, 1945.

52 surrendered U-boats moored at Lisahally, Northern Ireland in June, 1945

After a siege of nearly three months, Hanke surrendered on 6 May 1945, days before the end of the war.

The Allied ground advance into Germany reached Weimar in April 1945, and the city surrendered to the US 80th Infantry Division on April 12, 1945.

Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces on August 15, 1945.

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.

He volunteered for the Canadian Army Pacific Force ( CAPF ), granted a final " embarkation leave ", and found himself no closer to combat employment by the time the Japanese surrendered in September 1945.

These plans ended when the Japanese surrendered on 15 August 1945.

He abdicated in August 1945 when Japan surrendered.

Japan surrendered to the Allies in August 1945, and the Vietminh under the leadership of Hồ Chí Minh aimed to take power in a free Vietnam.

After Japan surrendered in 1945 Republic of China obtained control of Taiwan.