In August 1945 the Soviet Army ousted Japanese from China's Manchukuo and North Korea, contributing to the allied victory over Japan.

But between August 1940 and March 1945, Wiesbaden was attacked by allied bombers on 66 days.

Koch was executed by firing squad on 5 April 1945, one week before American allied troops arrived to liberate the camp.

Because of intensive construction of warships, A. G. „ Weser ” often was target of allied air-raids during the Bombing of Bremen in World War II, mainly in 1944 and 1945.

Koch was executed by firing squad on 5 April 1945, one week before American allied troops arrived to liberate the camp.

On March, 22nd 1945, Nijverdal was severely bombed by allied bombers who were going after the German Reichskommissar of Austrian origine Arthur Seyss-Inquart.

On March 30th 1945 ( Good Friday ) around nine ' o clock in the evening allied forces had a struggle just over five km south of Winterswijk.

In May 1945, by the end of the war in Europe, the Free French forces comprised 1, 300, 000 personnel, and included seven infantry divisions and three armored divisions fighting in Germany making it the fourth largest allied army in Europe behind the Soviet Union, the U. S. and Britain.

On 13 February 1945, Anglo-American allied forces began the bombing of Dresden.

Shotokan was the name of the first official dojo built by Funakoshi, in 1936 at Mejiro, and destroyed in 1945 as a result of an allied bombing.

In March 1945, realizing the allied victory was inevitable, the Japanese overthrew the French authorities in Vietnam, imprisoned their civil servants and proclaimed Vietnam " independent " under Japanese " protection " with Bảo Đại as emperor.

During World War II, Paderborn was comprehensively bombed by allied aircraft in 1944 and 1945 ( 85 % destruction ) and seized by the US 3rd Armored Division during a pitched battle 31 March-1 April 1945, in which tanks and flamethrowers were used during combined mechanized-infantry assaults against the city's southwestern, southern and southeastern approaches.

The remains of German town of Wesel after intensive allied area bombing in 1945 ( destruction rate 97 % of all buildings )

This marked another turning point in the escalation of violence that would only end with the final liberation by allied troops and partisans in 1945.

Following the Allies ' May 1945 victory, the Soviets effectively occupied Eastern Europe, while strong US and Western allied forces remained in Western Europe.

The Romney Hythe and Dymchurch light railway was used to assist in the construction of this project, which at its peak in 1945 was able to deliver one million gallons of fuel a day to the allied armies in Europe.

On February 23, 1945, US forces of the First Battalion, 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment led a combined amphibious and airborne raid against the Japanese prison of war camp, rescuing over 2, 000 allied nationals.

Her fate has been unknown since February 13, 1945, the date of the allied firebombing of Dresden.

Bombing raids continued, a B-29 raid on Bangkok destroying two key power plants on 14 April 1945 .; nevertheless, the Seri Thai network was effective in the rescue of downed allied airmen.

In the winter of 1944 and early spring of 1945 Johnston and his armoured division were in the thick of the allied advance, crossing the Rhine and fighting their way up to Bremen and Hamburg.

During World War II, the zoo sustained extensive damage due to allied air raids, but it was able to reopen in May 1945.

When allied troops reached Xanten in February 1945, mayor Schöneborn left the city.

From 1945 to 1956 there were lettering combinations assigned by the allied forces.

On February 1, 1945, Japanese forces ordered the occupants of the college and surrounding vicinities to vacate the college.

He served as a courier, bodyguard and telephone operator for German leader Adolf Hitler from 1940 to 1945., aged, he is the last living survivor of the occupants of the Führerbunker in the final days of the war in Europe.

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.

Wills also appeared in The Lone Prairie ( 1942 ), Riders of the Northwest Mounted ( 1943 ), Saddles and Sagebrush ( 1943 ), The Vigilantes Ride ( 1943 ), The Last Horseman ( 1944 ), Rhythm Round-Up ( 1945 ), Blazing the Western Trail ( 1945 ), and Lawless Empire ( 1945 ).

Although the ČSLA, as formed in 1945, included both Soviet-and British-equipped / trained expatriate troops, the " Western " soldiers had been purged from the ČSLA after 1948 when the communists took power.

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.

Nazi Germany faced multiple losses and steady Soviet and Western Allied offensives from 1943 to 1945.

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.

By April 1945, Nazi Germany faced its last days with 1. 9 million German soldiers in the East fighting 6. 4 million Red Army soldiers while 1 million German soldiers in the West battled 4 million Western Allied soldiers.

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.

Between 1945 and 1980, the posture of Western European states towards Liberia was largely that of the U. S .. Americo-Liberian rulers received hundreds of millions of dollars in unrestricted foreign investment, mainly from the U. S., but also from Western Europe.

* 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.

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.

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.

The bombing of Dresden by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force between 13 and 15 February 1945 remains a controversial Allied action of the Western European theatre of war.

Lignite mining in Western North Dakota, ca. 1945

This, combined with Western Allied landings in France and Italy, led to a three-front war that depleted Germany's armed forces and resulted in Germany's defeat in 1945.

Between July 1938 and April 1945, some 240, 000 people were incarcerated in the camp by the Nazi regime, including 168 Western Allied POWs.

Between April 1938 and April 1945, some 238, 380 people of various nationalities including 350 Western Allied POWs were incarcerated in Buchenwald.

A History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945.

After the transfer of Western Pomerania to Poland in 1945 the ( German ) population was expelled and replaced with Poles who had been expelled from territories in eastern Poland ceded to the Soviet Union.

Welk collaborated with Western artist Red Foley to record a version of Spade Cooley's " Shame on You " in 1945.