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Events[]

  • January 17: Warsaw is captured by Russians.[1]
  • February
    • February 7: Yalta Conference. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet to discuss post-war objectives.[1]
    • February 13-14: Dresden is bombed.[1]
    • February 19-March 17: Battle of Iwo Jima. US Marines win a hard-fought victory on the Pacific island.[1]
  • March
  • March-August: Indiana Jones passes these five months searching Gorsedd Arbeth in Wales.[2]
  • April
    • April 1-June 21: Battle of Okinawa. The United States of America wins a decisive victory on Japan's home turf.[1]
    • April 12: Vice President Truman succeeds as the 33rd president.[1]
    • April 16-May 2: Battle of Berlin. Soviet army crushes German resistance.[1]
    • April 25: Soviet forces meet American forces at Torgau on the Elbe River.[1]
    • April 28: German resistance in Italy collapses.[1]
    • April 30: Adolf Hitler commits suicide. Admiral Karl Doenitz succeeds him.[1]
  • May 8: V-E Day. Germany surrenders.[1]
  • May-August: Air offensive destroys the Japanese fleet and cripples industry.[1]
  • July 16: Atomic bomb is successfully tested at Los Alamos, New Mexico.[1]
  • August
    • August 6[3]: The USA drops the atomic bomb on Japan.[2] The B-29 bomber Enola Gay drops "Little Boy", the first atomic bomb. on Hiroshima. An estimated two-thirds of the city destroyed and 140,000 dead from blast and radiation poisoning by year's end.[1]
    • August 8: Russia invades Manchuria when Japan still refuses to surrender.[1]
    • August 9: Three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the Rock's Car drops "Fat Man" on Nagasaki. Half of the city is destroyed and 70,000 are killed.[1]
    • August 14: V-J Day. Japan unconditionally surrenders.[1]
    • August 14: A newspaper article is published regarding the expansion of Soviet Union.[4]
  • John Ford returns in Hollywood.[5]
  • Paul Robeson plays Othello in New York City.[6]
  • First manned rocket flight is attempted, but fails, killing its German pilot.[1]
  • First particle accelerator is invented.[1]
  • September 2[3]: Formal Japanese surrender is signed aboard the USS Missouri.[1] World War II ends.[7]
  • Japan rule over Korea ends.[8]
  • United Nations are formed.[9] United Nations charter signed. Spain is denied entry because of totalitarian government.[1]
  • French put down nationalist uprising in Algeria.[1]
  • France occupies Vietnam and Cambodia.[1]
  • Airtight containers are introduced.[1]

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Time of Indiana Jones
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