War in western europe-1945

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  • Germany Withdrawls from Battle of the Buldge

    Germany Withdrawls from Battle of the Buldge
    In January of 1945, the Germans decided to withdraw from the Adennes. The battle they were in was called "Battle of the buldge." The Battle of the Bulge had begun with a massive German offensive in an attempt to cut off and destroy 4 Allied armies. Also known as the "Ardennes Counteroffensive", this was the last major German offensive of WW2.

  • Soviet Troops liberate Auschwitz

    Soviet Troops liberate Auschwitz
    Soviet forces swarmed the Auschwitz camp complex, the Soviet began evacuating Auschwitz and all other camps. almost 60,000 prisoners were forced to march west from the Auschwitz camp system.

  • Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta

    Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta
    Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin – meet at the Yalta Conference 1945. The heads of state of the USA, Great Britain, USA, and Russia meet to discuss the reorganization of Post-War Europe.

  • Allies take Cologne and make a bridge across the Rhine at Remagen

    Allies take Cologne and make a bridge across the Rhine at Remagen
    This event shortnened the World war 2. After capturing the siegfried line, the 9th Armored Division of the U.S. First Army had advanced unexpectedly quickly towards the Rhine.

  • Allies discover stolen nazi art hidden in German salt mines

    Allies discover stolen nazi art hidden in German salt mines
    This event was also known as Nazi plunder. the Nazis looted some 600,000 paintings from Jews, at least 100,000 of which are still missing.

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

    Adolf Hitler commits suicide
    Hitler commited suicide in his undergroud bunker by a gunshot to the head and swallowing a cyanide capsule. Germany surrendered to allies soon after.

  • Surrender of all German forces to allies

    Surrender of all German forces to allies
    After Hitlers suicide, All German forces surrendered to the allies. This brought an end to the European conflict in World War 2.

  • First atomic bomb is tested

    First atomic bomb is tested
    The test was conducted near Alamogordo, New Mexico,at white sands monumental park on July 16, 1945, during the Manhattan Project, and given the codename "Trinity".

  • Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima Japan

    Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima Japan
    An American bomb was the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people.

  • United Nations is created

    United Nations is created
    The United Nations was born of absolute neccessity, as a means of better mediate international problems and negotiating peace than was provided for by the old League of Nations.