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1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the year concentration camps were liberated and the only year in which atomic weapons have been used in combat .
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1945 was a year in the 20th century that saw the end of...
- 1945 in the United States
Events from the year 1945 in the United States. World War II...
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On 27 April 1945, as Allied forces closed in on Milan, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was captured by Italian partisans. It is disputed whether he was trying to flee from Italy to Switzerland (through the Splügen Pass ), and was travelling with a German anti-aircraft battalion.
1945. January 27: Auschwitz camp of death is destroyed. April 30: Hitler commits suicide. May 7: Germany surrenders. May 9: Prague is liberated. May 9: The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union is finished. May 15: National Liberation War in Yugoslavia is finished. August 6: The First Atomic Bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, participated in the conflict, and many invested all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in ...
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1945 ( MCMXLV ) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1945th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 945th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1940s decade. It is well known as the end of World War II and the founding of UNO and UNESCO.