* 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.

* 1945 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established.

* 1945 – Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip " Tito " Broz signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow " temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory ".

* 1945 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.

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

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

Conquest's calculations excluded camp deaths before 1936 and after 1950, executions from 1939 – 1953, the vast deportation of the people of captive nations into the camps and their deaths 1939 – 1953, the massive deportation within the Soviet Union of minorities 1941 – 1944 and their deaths, and those the Soviet Red Army and secret police executed throughout Eastern Europe after their conquest during 1944 – 1945.

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.

* 1939 – 1945: In World War II many countries are occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union, where Esperanto organisations often were prohibited or Esperanto activities were limited in other ways.

The peace settlement in 1944 with the Soviet Union led to the Lapland War in 1945, where Finland fought Germans in Northern Finland.

On 11 February 1945, at the conclusion of the Yalta Conference, the United States and United Kingdom signed a Repatriation Agreement with the Soviet Union.

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.

By September 1945, the Third Reich ( which lasted only 12 years ) and its Axis partners ( Italy and Japan ) had been defeated, chiefly by the forces of the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

* the Pomme d ' Or overlooking Liberation Square in St. Helier, which during the occupation served as the German Navy Headquarters and from whose balcony the Liberation force raised the Union Flag on Liberation Day, 9 May 1945 ;

* 1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.

Fuchs later testified that he passed detailed information on the project to the Soviet Union through a courier known as " Raymond " ( later identified as Harry Gold ) in 1945, and further information about the hydrogen bomb in 1946 and 1947.

In July 1945, as Soviet police ranks were converted to a military uniform system, Beria's rank was officially converted to that of Marshal of the Soviet Union.

* 1945 – World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building.

* 1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.

* 1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna ; Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdańsk.

* 1945 – World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes.

The Korean peninsula was divided into two occupied zones in 1945, with the northern half of the peninsula occupied by the Soviet Union and the southern half by the United States.

After 1945, the Soviet Union supplied the economic and military aid that enabled North Korea to mount its invasion of the South in 1950.

* 1956 – The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.

* Croatian Orthodox Church ( 1942 – 1945 )

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.

In the entire history of the Orthodox Church there has probably never been an Easter service like the one at Dachau in 1945.

During this period in his life, Groza was able to amass a personal fortune as a wealthy landowner and establish a notable reputation as a prominent layman within the Romanian Orthodox Church, a position which would later make him invaluable to a Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) that was campaigning to attract the support of Eastern Orthodox Christians who constituted the nation's most numerous religious group in 1945.

In 1945, following Joseph Stalin's temporary tolerance of the church during World War II, the Lavra was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church.

The Bulgarian Exarchate ( Bâlgarska ekzarkhia ) was the official name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church before its autocephaly was recognized by the Ecumenical See in 1945 and the Bulgarian Patriarchate was restored in 1953.

Metropolitan Sergius ( Tikhomirov ) of Japan ( secular name Georgiy Alexeyevich Tikhomirov )( 1871 – 1945 ) was a monk and bishop of the Orthodox Eastern Church.

He was also the professor of Dogmatics at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University of Belgrade from 1934 until 1945, until World War II.

Mateja Matejić ( born 1924 ) Serbian Cyrillic Матеја Матејић-Priest of Serbian Orthodox Church, emigrant since 1945, and the Professor Emeritus of Slavic languages and Literatures at Ohio State University.

Patriarch Alexy I ( Alexius I,, secular name Sergey Vladimirovich Simanskiy, ; – April 17, 1970 ) was the 13th Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church ( ROC ) between 1945 and 1970.

* Patriarch Germogen of Croatia ( 1861 – 1945 ), Patriarch of Croatian Orthodox Church

* Chaim Walkin ( born 1945 ), Orthodox rabbi, dean and lecturer

By 1944 the UAP had effectively disintegrated and in 1945 Menzies formally established a new political party, the Liberal Party of Australia, and forged an enduring coalition with the Country Party.

The IMF was formally organized on December 27, 1945, when the first 29 countries signed its Articles of Agreement.

* 1945 – The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.

On 29 November 1945, King Peter II was formally deposed by the Yugoslav Constituent Assembly.

Although Tito was formally an ally of Stalin after WWII, the Soviets had set up a spy ring in the Yugoslav party as early as 1945, giving way to an uneasy alliance.

* 1945 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.

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

Worldcon, or more formally The World Science Fiction Convention, is a science fiction convention held each year since 1939 ( except for the years 1942 to 1945, during World War II ).

The republic nominally continued to exist until 1945, as the constitution was never formally repealed.

The Soviets formally declared war in August 1945 and engaged Japanese forces in Manchuria and northeast China.

Perec was taken into the care of his paternal aunt and uncle in 1942, and in 1945 he was formally adopted by them.

The SA was effectively superseded by the SS, although it was not formally dissolved and banned until after the Third Reich's final capitulation to the Allied powers in 1945.

The territories formally claimed by the puppet state were first seized in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August 1945, and then formally transferred to Chinese administration in the following year.

* fourth protocol period from 1 July 1944, ( signed 17 April 1945 ), formally ended 12 May 1945 but deliveries continued for the duration of the war with Japan ( which the Soviet Union entered on the 8 August 1945 ) under the " Milepost " agreement until 2 September 1945 when Japan capitulated.

Australian involvement was effectively terminated in October 1944, although it was not formally suspended until 31 March 1945.

On 1 January 1945, by decree of General Charles de Gaulle based on the untried accusations of collaboration, the company was expropriated from Louis Renault posthumously and on 16 January 1945 it was formally nationalised as Régie Nationale des Usines Renault.

The Combined Fleet was formally dissolved on 10 October 1945.

Even though Japan maintains a powerful defense force, its Constitution, originally drawn under the guidelines of General Douglas MacArthur in 1945, formally renounces war and the use of military force in aggressive or offensive ways.

The Germans surrendered Alderney on May 16, 1945, eight days after the Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, and seven days after the liberation of Guernsey and Jersey.