Both republics and the Soviet Union joined the UN when the organization was founded in 1945.

Cuba joined the United Nations in 1945.

In 1945 he joined the Université de Montréal where he had 40 assistants and worked with 15, 000 lab animals.

He joined the University of Texas in 1945 as an assistant professor of chemistry, became an associate professor in 1946, a full professor in 1950, a department chair in 1952, dean of research in 1960, vice president and provost in 1961, and vice chancellor for academic affairs for the University of Texas System in 1963.

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

Saudi Arabia joined the UN in 1945 and is a founder member of the Arab League, Gulf Cooperation Council, Muslim World League, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

It debated its role in world affairs and joined the UN in 1945, NATO in 1949, where it became a close ally of the United States.

Historically, Soviet Ukraine joined the United Nations in 1945 as one of the original members following a Western compromise with the Soviet Union, which had asked for seats for all 15 of its union republics.

In 1945, Uruguay abandoned its policy of neutrality and joined the Allied cause.

In 1945, it formally joined the Declaration by United Nations.

Though he voted for the Labour Party in their 1945 landslide victory, because he wanted to punish the Conservative Party for the Munich agreement, after the war he joined the Conservatives and worked for the Conservative Research Department under Rab Butler, where his colleagues included Iain Macleod and Reginald Maudling.

As a seventeen year old, in 1945, Li joined the Communist Party of China.

From 1937 to 1945, 126, 750 Taiwanese joined and served in the military of the Japanese Empire, while a further 80, 433 were conscripted between 1942 to 1945.

He also worked as a construction worker, a doorman ( bouncer ), a security guard and a ditchdigger, and briefly joined the United States Merchant Marine in 1945.

During World War II Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany and liberated in 1945, after which it joined the United Nations.

De jure, the German Reich did not cease to exist in 1945, but after four years of Allied occupation, three German states were formed inside of Germany as a whole in 1949: the Federal Republic of Germany ( then commonly known as West Germany ) in the former U. S., and British zones of occupation, the Saar in French zone, until 1957, when it joined the FRG, and the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) in the former Soviet Zone.

Scruggs joined Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in late 1945, and quickly popularized his syncopated, three-finger picking style.

Italy joined the Axis powers in World War II, falling into a bloody Civil War after a monarchist coup ousted Mussolini in 1943, surrendering to the Allies in 1943 and joining their side, so eventually winning the war against Fascists and Nazi Germany in 1945.

In early June 1945, Kobarid came under joined British-U. S. occupation and placed under Allied temporary military administration until the establishment of a final border between Italy and Yugoslavia.

It was known as Regierungsbezirk Westpreußen (" West Prussia ") while it was joined to the Province of East Prussia from 1922 – 39, after which its original name was restored until its dissolution in 1945.

On VE Day, 8 May 1945, Lyttelton joined in the celebrations by playing his trumpet from a wheelbarrow, inadvertently giving his first broadcast performance ; the BBC recording still survives.

Eckert and Mauchly and the other ENIAC designers were joined by John von Neumann in a consulting role ; von Neumann summarized and discussed logical design developments in the 1945 First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC.

He joined the Department of State in February 1945, and worked for the office of United Nations Affairs.

In 1945, the Germans left and the island of Patmos remained autonomous until 1948, when it, together with the rest of the Dodecanese Islands, joined the independent Greece.

* 1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.

* 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army was liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under by General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

* 1945 – The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.

* 1945 – The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.

* 1945 – World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna, Austria.

* 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.

* 1945 – Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces.

* 1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.

* 1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.

* 1945 – World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.

By 1943, the Partisan resistance movement had gained the upper hand, against the odds, and in 1945, with help from the Soviet Red Army ( passing only through small parts such as Vojvodina ), expelled the Axis forces and local supporters.

From then until the end of the war in Europe on May 8, 1945, Eisenhower through SHAEF had command of all Allied forces, and through his command of ETOUSA, administrative command of all U. S. forces, on the Western Front north of the Alps.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

A personal high point was the reception of the Japanese surrender in Singapore when British troops returned to the island to receive the formal surrender of Japanese forces in the region led by General Itagaki Seishiro on 12 September 1945, codenamed Operation Tiderace.

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.

* 1945 – World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.

Mussolini was rescued from arrest by German forces and led the German client state, the Italian Social Republic from 1943 to 1945.

* 1945 – World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.

* 1945 – World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.

* Wehrmacht ( 1935 – 1945 ), armed forces of Nazi Germany

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.