In October 1945 Clarke published an article titled “ Extra-terrestrial Relays ” in the British magazine Wireless World.

Potočnik's book described geostationary satellites ( first put forward by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ) and discussed communication between them and the ground using radio, but fell short of the idea of using satellites for mass broadcasting and as telecommunications relays ( developed by Arthur C. Clarke in his Wireless World article of 1945 ).

Arthur C. Clarke contributed to the understanding of satellites through an article published in Wireless World in October 1945 titled " Extra-Terrestrial Relays: Can Rocket Stations Give World-wide Radio Coverage ?".

Following the Labour Party's victory in the 1945 general elections, the government announced its intention to nationalise Cable and Wireless, which was carried out in 1947.

Following the Labour Party's victory in the 1945 general elections, the government announced its intention to nationalise Cable and Wireless, which was carried out in 1947.

During World War II, in 1945, the No. 1 Canadian Special Wireless Group was located in the present day suburb.

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

* 1945 – World War II: the Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.

* 1945 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization ( d. 2006 )

* 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day.

* 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 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.

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

* 1945 – World War II: Start of Operation Manna.

* 1945 – World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.

* 1945 – World War II – Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.

* 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.

* 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 – World War II: German troops kill more than 1, 000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.

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

* 1945 – World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt.

* 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 – World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk.

* 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.

* 1945 – The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.

In 1945, Engelbart had read with interest Vannevar Bush's article " As We May Think ", a call to action for making knowledge widely available as a national peacetime grand challenge.

": Popular Mechanics article, February 1945, p. 39.

In 1945 or early 1946, while still living at Canonbury Square, Orwell wrote an article on " British Cookery ", complete with recipes, commissioned by the British Council.

In 1945, Vannevar Bush wrote an article in The Atlantic Monthly called " As We May Think ", about a futuristic proto-hypertext device he called a Memex.

The idea of using computers to search for relevant pieces of information was popularized in the article As We May Think by Vannevar Bush in 1945.

* From Gatling to Browning September 1945 article Popular Science

The memex ( a portmanteau of " memory " and " index ") is the name of the hypothetical proto-hypertext system that Vannevar Bush described in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article " As We May Think " ( AWMT ).

The September 10, 1945, Life magazine article showed the first illustrations of what the memex desk

Part of that 1900 article was reprinted in the February 1945 issue of Popular Science, describing how shaped-charge warheads worked.

* 1945 Popular Science article that at last revealed secrets of shaped charge weapons ; article also includes reprints of 1900 Popular Science drawings of Professor Munroe's experiments with crude shaped charges

Even the expulsion of Germans from central and eastern Europe after World War II was apparently sanctioned in article 13 of the Potsdam communiqué, although research has shown that both the British and the American delegations at Potsdam strongly objected to the size of the population transfer that had already taken place and was accelerating in the summer of 1945.

In 1945 Newsweek ran an article titled " Balloon Mystery " in their January 1 issue, and a similar story appeared in a newspaper the next day.

It was first used in English in an article by Irving Kaplansky, " Lucas's Tests for Mersenne Numbers ," American Mathematical Monthly, 52 ( Apr., 1945 ).

" Ordonnance du 19 octobre 1945 " also states in article 3 " This application does not however affect the validity of past acts by the person or rights acquired by third parties on the basis of previous laws.

As a subscriber to War Commentary, the war-time equivalent of Freedom, he was called in 1945 from Orkney, where he was serving, to give evidence at the London trial of the editors for publishing an article allegedly intended to seduce soldiers from their duty or allegiance.

In 1945, " There ain't no such thing as a free lunch " appeared in the Columbia Law Review, and " there is no free lunch " appeared in a 1942 article in the Oelwein Daily Register ( in a quote attributed to economist Harley L. Lutz ) and in a 1947 column by economist Merryle S. Rukeyser.

Adrian threatened criminal proceedings against Pearson's " fakeography ", and wrote an article in protest, and later a book The True Conan Doyle ( John Murray, 1945 ).

In 1945, Vannevar Bush described a hypertext-like device called the " memex " in his The Atlantic Monthly article As We May Think.

The general public remained in the dark about shape charge warheads ( i. e. they even believed that it was a new super secret explosive ) until early 1945 when the US Army co-operated with the US monthly publication Popular Science on a large and detailed article on the subject.

This article describes divided Germany during the Cold War ( 1945 – 1990 ).