Timeline - 1945
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23 May 1945German High Command and Provisional Government imprisoned.
26 June 1945United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
16 July 1945Potsdam Conference begins.
26 July 1945Atlee succeeds Churchill as British Prime Minister.
06 August 1945First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima.
08 August 1945Soviets declares war on Japan and invade Manchuria.
09 August 1945Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki.
14 August 1945Last mission over Japan, on Tsuchizaki.
14 August 1945Japanese agree to unconditional surrender.
02 September 1945V-J (Victory over Japan) Day.
24 October 1945The United Nations is formed.
20 November 1945Nuremberg war crimes trials begin.




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