World War II Chronology 1945 Highlights and collapses
A brisk chronology marks key 1945 events from Allied advances in Europe and Asia to Japan's surrender. Major milestones include American and Russian offensives, the fall of Berlin, Allied victory signals, atomic bombings, and postwar actions such as trials and reconstructions. Prominent figures include MacArthur, Zhukov, Konev, Yamashita, and Tojo. The timeline covers battles, invasions, capitulations, and a changing map across Europe Asia and the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V. S. Third Army
Stogne
France
Italy
Pacific
Luzon
Negros Islands
Philippines
Igium
New Allains
MacArthur
Enw
Oder River
U. S
St. Vith
Belgium
Aachen
Germany
Berlin
Oberhausen
Okinawa
Vienna
Austria
Nuremberg
Bremen
Stettin
Baltic
Elbe
Torgau
Gewenbach
Kurt Dittmar
Magdeburg
Benito Mussolini
Congo
Munich
Venice
Milan
U. S. Fifth Army
Reichstag
Stalin
Russia
Caserta
Zhukov
Konev
Borneo
Netherlands
Denmark
Heleland
Frisian Islands
Montgomery
U. S.S
Devers
Swinemuende
U. S. Third Army
Czechoslovakia
Pilsen
Karlsbad
Gustav Jodl
Reims
Amany
Europe
Wa Wee
European News
Bong Kong
Nanning
Japan
Hirohito
Manchuria
Truman
Potsdam
Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni
Truk
Rota
Yap
Jaluit
Yamashita Preares
Jonathan Wainwright
Mukden
China
General MacArthur
New Grand Hotel
Yokoama
U. S. Eighth Army
Yokohama
Missouri
Tokyo Bay
Army
Navy
Hideki Tojo
London
United States
Britain
Roosevelt era ends as Truman becomes president and war shifts
A sprawling wartime timeline notes Roosevelt's four terms, his death, Truman's oath and early actions. It covers budget talks, 1946 plans, UN formation, demobilization, price controls, labor unrest, and atomic policy along with a broad catalog of cabinet changes and military reallocations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Oe Springs
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Congress
Senate
United Nations Conference
San Francisco
War Production Board
Thomas Clark
Francis Biddle
Lewis Schwellenbach
Francis Perkins
Clinton Anderson
Claude Wickard
Agriculture
Commission
Western Union Telegraph Co
Eeey
National sports and disaster roundups from various events
A broad summary lists Rose Bowl result Southern California 25 Tennessee 0, Duke 29 Alabama 26, and golf wins by Sammy Snead and Byron Nelson. It notes baseball and football milestones, track and swimming titles, and major disasters including floods, tornadoes, fires, and a midwest train collision with multiple casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern California
Defea
Tennessee
Duke
Alabama
Miami
Gear
Tech
Shrine
San Fri
Ge - Southwestern
National U. of Mexico
Keb
Sammy Snead
New York Yankees
Larry McPhail
1944 Liquor Boom and Wartime News Across United States
The 1944 U S liquor intake reached 7 16 billion dollars excluding bootleg volume, an 18 percent rise from 1943 per the commerce department. Secretary Stimson laments mistakes after three servicemen were dumped from a cargo plane to make room for a dog consigned by Col. Elliott Roosevelt to his wife in Hollywood. Various World War II era items follow, including film awards and marriages, a solar eclipse sighting, and atomic element discoveries, with notes on naval incidents and medical advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Department of Commerce
Stimson
Elliott Roosevelt
Faye
Hollywood
Calif
England
Adolf Hitler
Notable deaths of public figures and entertainers listed
A Western Newspaper Union wrap lists prominent deaths including United States Senator Francis T. Maloney of Connecticut in Meriden at term end, prohibition leader William E. Johnsen in Binghamton, Nebraska ex governor Pierias Bryes in Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt in Warm Springs from hemorrhage, lyric tenor John Megemsnck in Washington, and songwriter Jerome Kern in New York City, among others with ages and locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierias
Bryes
William Enningson
Nebraska
Lincoln
Neb
John Thomas
U. S
Idaho
Washington, D. C
Jerome Kern
New York City
Robert Benchley
Laywright
Alexander Patch Jr
Seventh Army
San Antonio
Tex
Dwight Davis
Cabin
Calvin Coolidge
Pima Western
Union
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IAPS
Manila
U. S. First Army
Boer River
Geen Pee
Tokyo
Yalta
Budapest
Bataan
Berchtesgaden
Hitler
Chaling
Hunan
Cologne
U. S First Army
Mindanao
Holland
Coblenz
U. S. Ird
U. S. Rd
Ludwigshafen
Rhine River
U. S. Third Fleet
Admiral Halsey
Osaka
Philted
Libera
Philippine Islands
U. SS. Third Fleet
Honshu
U.S. Gantrover Force
Third Fleet
Island
U. S. Twentieth Air Force
Delna
Hiroshima
Beok Ssia
Man- Tomic MB
George Patton
Bavaria
Pierre Laval
Vikdam Quisling
Syria
Lebanon
Egypt
Palestine
Shanhaikwan
Java
Iran
Nuernberg
Teheran
Nashimoto
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Tiger of
The
Levant
Prince Fumimaro Konoye
Great Britain
Moscow
Sam Rayburn
House
Office of Defense Transportation
Montgomery Ward Co
Byrnes
Henry A. Wallace
William Davis
Fred Vinson
cNarney
Bradley
Krueger
Somerce
Pant
Kenney
Clark
Andy
OPA
Robert H. Jackson
U.S. Supreme Court
Allied War Crimes Tribunal
Robert E. Hannegan
Democratic National Committee
Stmastereneral
Frank Walker
Maryland
U. S. Supreme Court
Price Administration
George A
James Doolittle
Omar Bradley
Birthene Randolph Co
James F. Byrnes
Anderson
Petroleum Administration
United Nations
WMC
Churches
Washington
Bermuda
Attlee
Pearl Harbor
United Auto Workers Union
General Motors
Montgomery, Ward and Co
Chicago
Karl Hoffman
Robert Storz
Ida Grove
Iowa
Governor Green
Illinois
Earl Wilson
Sugar Branch
Byron Nelson
Jug
New York
Frank Sinkwich
Detroit Lions
Proapam Sf
Natonal
Ann Curtis
Ae Eeedak
Albert
Happy) Andler
Kentucky
Kenesaw M. Landis
Vee
Hoop Jr
Eddie Arcaro Ridi
Sammy Byrd
Welby van Horn
Tommy Holmes
Boston Braves
Charles Beaudry
Marquette U
Milwaukee
Naaa Decathion
Bloomfield
N. J
Hambletonian Stake
Titan Hanover
Harry Pownall
Goshen
N.Y
Michigan State College
Robert Feller
Cleveland Indians
Green Bay Packers
Sarah Cooke
Boston
Pauline Betz
Los Angeles
Forest
Frank Parker
Forest Park
Poe
Chicago Cubs
St. Louis
Detroit Tigers
Receip Gross
Sfr Sonask
Louisville Colonels
Newark Bears
Louisville
Joe Louis
Billy Conn
Phil Cavarretta
Hal Newhouser
Array
Washington Redskins
York Giants
Chica
Dayay
Auburn
Meridian
Ala
Ohio
Amage
Mississippi
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Antlers
Okla
Milton
New Jersey
Berkshire Mountain
Massachusetts
Empire State Building
Michigan
N. D
Texas
Lake Chelan
Chelan
Wash
Lumberton
N. C
Fox River Grove
Mopen
Falone
Ly Sengular
Sur- Meh m Variety
Greer Garson
Gallup
Bing Crosby
Ingrid Bergman
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science Awards
Gloria Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Leopold Stokowski
Mexico
Leland S. Cat MacPhail
N. Y. Yankees
Jean B. Wanamaker
Baltimore
Lauren Bacall
Humphrey Bogart
Mansfield
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Riverside Church
Axis Sally
Turin
Taly
Rita Louise Zucca
Deanna Durbin
Felix Jackson
Las Vegas
Merle Oberon
Lucien Ballard
Camerman
Juarez
Mex
Montana
Canada
Virginia Ginn
Ae Dehn
Pbs Hills
Billboard
Atchison, Topeka
Santa Fe
Betty Hutton
Theodore Briskin
Shirley Temple
Sgt
John Agar
Lake Forest
Acco G
Toboard
Santa’ Fe
U.S. Navy
Honolulu
Glenn Seaborg
U. of California
Aiecciae Id
Dayton
University of Illinois — of Medicine
Benadry
Judy Hackma
Seattle
Carole Landis
W. Horace Seveniage
Generalorge S. Patton Jr
Philips
Navy Hospital
Hanes
Call
Francis T. Maloney
Den
Conn
Meriden
William E. ‘‘Pussyfoot” Johnsen
Prohibition
Binghamton, N
Alfred V. de Forest
Mariro
N. H
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Hener J. Grant
Rae Saints
Mormon Charenyste
Hiram W. Johnson
John McCormack
John Megemsnck
Amed
Quisling
Bere
Mac
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