Newsmap - Volume 4, Number 37
12/31/1945
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NEWSMAP FOR THE ARMED FORCES
1945: YEAR OF VICTORY [photo caption] German PWs arriving in States on V-E-Day.
January YANKS ON LUZON: U.S. troops sweep ashore on Lingayen Gulf to break Jap grip on Philippines-Russians capture Warsaw-German homeland invaded from east and west-Hungary sues for peace, signs armistice.
February "BIG THREE" AT YALTA: Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin plan final squeeze on Germany-Manila falls to MacArthur's forces-Marines invade Iwo Jima-Air attacks smash chief Japanese and German cities.
March ACROSS THE RHINE AT REMAGEN: U.S. First army swiftly breaches last major nazi defense line when troops capture Ludendorff bridge intact-Mandalay falls to British-Germany's "lebensraum" shrinks rapidly as Russians enter Austria.
April FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT DIES: Harry S. Truman becomes 32nd President of the U.S. as nation mourns war leader-U.S. and Russian armies join at Elbe River, mop up remaining German forces-San Francisco Conference opens.
May V-E-DAY: Truman proclaims European war's end on 8 May following unconditional surrender of Germany-Hitler reported dead in ruins of Berlin Chancellery-Goebbels, Himmler suicides as Goering and other Nazi leaders rounded up.
June UNITED NATIONS: Delegates at San Francisco adopt charter as first step in new world organization-Japanese resistance ends on Okinawa-Superforts rain death on Nipponese cities-Allies announce control plan for Germany.
July POTSDAM CONFERENCE: New "Big Three" sessions map end of Germany's warmaking potential-Atlee succeeds Churchill as Britain's prime minister, joins Truman and Stalin at Potsdam-U.S. fleet shells Honshu-Senate passes Bretton Woods bill.
August ATOMIC AGE BEGINS: Single atom bomb devastates Hiroshima on 6 August-Russia declares war on Japan and second bomb hits Nagasaki-Japan agrees to surrender following prolonged negotiations-MacArthur named supreme commander.
September V-J-DAY ENDS WORLD WAR II-Japanese emissaries sign surrender document on 2 September aboard U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay-Occupation of Japan completed-Army announces 1,116,000 men released since 12 May.
October GOERING AND 23 OTHER HIGH NAZIS INDICTED FOR WAR CRIMES: German leaders charged with plotting against world peace-Arch-traitors Quisling and Laval die before firing suads-De Gaulle forms new coalition government in France.
November NEW CHIEF OF STAFF: Eisenhower replaces Marshall in key Army post, urges unification of armed forces-Nuremberg trials open-High officials arrested in Japan-New governments elected in Austria, Bulgaria, and Hungary.
December MOSCOW MEETING: "Big Three" ministers, Byrnes, Bevin, and Molotoff, confer in Russian capital-Truman asks Congress to combine Army and Navy-Marshall goes to China as ambassador-U.N.O. Preparatory Commission meets in London.
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