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| Jan 17th |
Warsaw
captured by Soviet forces. |
| Jan 26th |
Auschwitz
concentration camp liberated by Soviets. |
| Feb 4th |
11th Yalta
Conference – Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt met. |
| Feb 13th |
Dresden
destroyed by a firestorm after Allied bombing raids. |
| Mar 7th |
Allies
captured Cologne. |
| Mar 20th |
British
army re-took Mandalay in Burma. |
| Mar 23rd
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Allied
forces crossed the Rhine. |
| Apr 13th |
Belsen
concentration camp liberated by British troops. |
| Apr 12th |
President
Roosevelt died. Harry S Truman became US President. |
| Apr 16th |
Soviet
troops began the final assault on Berlin. |
| Apr 19th |
Allied
offensive in northern Italy. Venice liberated. |
| Apr 28th |
Mussolini
captured and executed by Italian partisans. |
| Apr 29th |
Dachau
camp liberated by US troops. |
| Apr 30th |
Hitler
committed suicide in Berlin. |
| May 2nd |
German
forces in Italy surrendered; British and Russian forces met
on the Baltic. |
| May 3rd |
British
Army recaptured Rangoon, Burma. |
| May 5th |
Copenhagen,
Denmark, liberated. |
| May 6th |
British
army entered Austria. |
| May 7th |
Unconditional
surrender of all German forces agreed. |
| May 8th |
VE Day. |
| Jun 5th |
Allies
divided up Germany and Berlin into Occupation Zones, and took
over administration. |
| Jun 10th |
Australian
troops landed in Borneo. |
| Jun 26th |
United
Nations Charter signed at a San Francisco conference. |
| Jul 16th |
Potsdam
Conference began in Berlin; Truman, Churchill and Stalin. |
| Jul 26th |
Clement
Attlee succeeded Winston Churchill as Prime Minister. |
| Aug 6th |
First
atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. |
| Aug 9th |
Second
atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. |
| Aug 14th |
Japan’s
unconditional surrender . |
| Aug 15th |
VJ
Day. |
| Oct 24th |
United
Nations organisation came into being. |
| Nov 20th |
War Crimes
Trials begin in Nuremberg. |
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