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| 04/01/1945 |
The USA issue's its casualty figures
to the 21st December 1944 as 135,323 killed, 362,824 wounded,
75,844 missing and 64,148 captured. |
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02/02/1945
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Ecuador declares war on
Germany. |
| 08/02/1945 |
Paraguay declares war on Germany. |
| 12/02/1945 |
Peru declares war against Germany. |
| 14/02/1945 |
Uruguay declares war against Germany. |
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28/03/1945
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Argentina declares war
against Germany. |
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| 12/04/1945 |
After suffering a massive
cerebral hemorrhage, President Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs
in Georgia, aged 63. Harry Truman is sworn in as 32nd President
of the United States. |
| 25/04/1945 |
Beginning of the San Francisco Conference
convened to discuss the founding of the United Nations. |
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| 12/06/1945 |
Eisenhower is awarded
the Order of Merit and becomes the first U.S. recipient. |
| 18/06/1945 |
Eisenhower arrives in Washington to
a hero’s welcome. |
| 23/06/1945 |
The San Francisco Conference Co-ordination
Committee, completes the text of the UN Charter. |
| 25/06/1945 |
The UN Charter is signed by representatives
at San Francisco. |
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| 16/07/1945 |
At 5.30 am, the first
atomic bomb is exploded at a test site in Los Alamos, USA |
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| 09/08/1945 |
Truman broadcasts from
Washington about Potsdam conference and the atom bomb. |
| 16/08/1945 |
Rationing of gasoline and fuel oil
comes to an end in the USA. |
| 22/08/1945 |
U.S. War Office estimates that there
are a quarter of a million POW's and civilian internees in
Japanese hands at present. |
| 25/08/1945 |
7 U-boat men are executed at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas for the murder of a fellow U-Boat man,
Werner Drechsler who they had judged as a traitor. |
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| 16/10/1945 |
Peron returns to Argentine politics
as a ‘strong man’. |
| 24/10/1945 |
The United Nations formally
comes into being with twenty-nine ratification's having been
received. |
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| 23/11/1945 |
Butter rationing comes
to an end, leaving sugar as the only item that continues to
be rationed in the USA. |
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| 04/12/1945 |
The U.S. Senate votes
to allow the USA to join the UN and to permit the UN to use
American forces to preserve peace and security. |
| 15/12/1945 |
The Permanent Headquarters for UN
are to be established in the USA. |
| 17/12/1945 |
The Senate votes for U.S. help in
establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine. |
| 19/12/1945 |
Eleanor Roosevelt, the widow of the
late President is appointed as one of first U.S. delegates
to the UN. |
