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1945 Following effects from Polio as a young man President Roosevelt died on April 12th 1945. Following the defeat of Germany in early 1945 the war officially ended in Europe on May 7th 1945 ( V-E Day ). President Harry S. Truman orders the use of the new Nuclear Bombs developed by ( Robert Oppenheimer's team ) the first an atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan, and after the 2nd atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" over the city of Nagasaki, Japan 5 days later Japan surrendered August 14th 1945 ( V-J Day ) .

How Much things cost in 1945

Average Cost of new house $4.600.00

Average wages per year $2,400.00

Cost of a gallon of Gas 15 cents

Average Cost for house rent $60.00 per month

Average Cost New Car $1,020.00

Mens Shirt $2.50

World War II 1945

  • Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Fuhrerbunker
  • Nazis begin to evacuate from Auschwitz concentration camp
  • US Troops Liberate Buchenwald, Germany Concentration Camp
  • Dachau concentration camp liberated
  • President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin sign the Yalta Agreement
  • The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by American forces
  • The capital of the Burma, Mandalay, is liberated by British Troops
  • Italian partisans execute Benito Mussolini
  • Vienna is liberated by Russian Cossack Allies
  • British troops liberate Belsen Concentration camp finding no running water and thousands of dead and rotting corpses
  • American B-29 bombers attack Japan with incendiary bombs . Tokyo is fire-bombed killing 100,000 citizens.
  • USS Franklin severely damaged with the loss of 700 + lives
  • A massive air raid using incendiaries completely destroys the city of Dresden
  • Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, commit suicide
  • Joseph Goebbels and his wife commit suicide after killing their 6 children
  • V-E Day (Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders) commemorates the end of World War II in Europe.
  • William Joyce, known as "Lord Haw-Haw" is captured. He is later charged with high treason in London for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio. He is hanged in January of 1946.
  • The United States Tenth Army take control of Okinawa, main island of the Ryukyus, 362 miles from the Japanese home islands
  • Germany is divided between Allied occupation forces
  • Austria like Germany was divided into 4 Zones: American, British, French and Russian
  • The United States detonates an atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan
  • The United States detonates an atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" over the city of Nagasaki, Japan
  • Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender on the radio.
  • The United States called this day V-J Day (Victory in Japan).
  • United States Marines land on Iwo Jima
  • World War II ends
  • The first German war crimes trial begins in Nuremberg.

What Events Happened in 1945

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945) dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) takes the Oath of Office.
  • United Nations founded.
  • Five U.S. Navy bombers Flight 19 are Lost In the Bermuda Triangle
  • A US Bomber Crashes into the 79th Floor of The Empire State Building

Popular Culture

  • "Your Lucky Hit Parade" Broadcast For The First Time

Popular Films

  • Anchors Away
  • The Paleface
  • The Lost Weekend
  • Spellbound
  • National Velvet
  • Orwell published his anti-Stalinist allegory Animal Farm,
  • Arthur C. Clarke puts forward the idea of a communications satellite in a Wireless World magazine article.

Technology

  • Percy Spencer accidentally discovers that microwaves can heat food
  • In 1945 only 5,000 homes have Television Sets
  • Assembly of the world's first general purpose electronic computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer (ENIAC), is completed. It covers 1800 feet of floor space. The first set of calculations is run on the computer


Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use ) 1945
Atomic Bomb USA by Robert Oppenheimer's team
Microwave Oven Percy LeBaron Spencer