World War 2 - 1945AD
In 1945AD:
Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met at the Yalta Conference.
Allied forces crossed the Rhine and began the final assault on Germany.
German jet aircraft were unable to prevent mass Allied air attacks.
Advancing Allied armies discovered Nazi extermination camps.
Mussolini was killed by Italian partisans.
Marshal Zhukov's Soviet troops launched the final attack on Berlin.
Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker; Germany surrendered to the Allies.
Churchill, Truman and Stalin held the last wartime conference at Potsdam.
U.S. forces under MacArthur liberated the Philippines.
U.S. Marines invaded the Japanese islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Suicide attacks by Japanese kamikaze pilots were unable to stem the U.S. advances.
The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Soviet Union declared war on Japan.
Japan signed an armistice with the Allies, ending World War II.
Germany and Austria were divided between the Allies into 4 zones of occupation.
General MacArthur headed the U.S. occupation forces in Japan.
Korea was divided between U.S. and Soviet occupation forces along the 38th parallel.
The trial of Nazi war criminals began at Nuremberg in Germany.
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