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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hitler commited suicide in his undergroud bunker by a gunshot to the head and swallowing a cyanide capsule. Germany surrendered to allies soon after.
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After Hitlers suicide, All German forces surrendered to the allies. This brought an end to the European conflict in World War 2.
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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".
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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.
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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.
