World War II

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04/11/1945.....U.S. troops reach the Buchenwald concentration camp and discover that the prisoners had liberated themselves from a forced evacuation. A few days later, British troops liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp for women.

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04/11/1945.....U.S. troops reach the Buchenwald concentration camp and discover that the prisoners had liberated themselves from a forced evacuation. A few days later, British troops liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp for women.

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04/12/1945.....President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of cerebral hemorrhage at age 63. Harry S. Truman becomes president of the United States.

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04/13/1945.....Soviet troops capture Vienna, Austria.

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04/18/1945.....The last of the German troops trapped on the Ruhr River surrender.

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04/23/1945.....Soviet troops reach Berlin

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04/25/1945.....U.S. and Soviet troops meet at the Elbe River in Germany.

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04/28/1945.....Benito Mussolini is captured by Italian antifascists and executed.

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04/29/1945.....U. S. troops liberate the Dachau concentration camp where they discover evidence of gruesome medical experiments.

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04/30/1945.....Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide in a Berlin bunker as Soviet troops advance through the city. Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, scheduled to become new German Chancellor also kills himself-after having his wife and six children killed.

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05/02/1945.....Soviet troops complete the capture of Berlin. The remaining German troops in Italy surrender.

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05/07/1945......Germany surrenders unconditionally

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05/08/1945.....V-E Day is declared-victory in Europe.

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05/09/1945.....Soviet troops occupy Prague and the Allies liberate the Channel Islands.

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06/21/1945.....U.S. troops complete the capture of Okinawa providing a secure base for the final assault on Japan.

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07/16/1945.....The World's first atomic bomb is successfully tested in New Mexico-the Trinity Test. The parts of the bombs to be dropped on Japan are already on their way. In Germany, the Potsdam Conference between the U.S., Britain, and the USSR begins.

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07/26/1945.....The U.S., Britain and China issue the Potsdam Declaration, which gives an ultimatum to Japan: unconditionally surrender immediately, or face "prompt and utter destruction" In Britain, Clement Atlee replaces Winston Churchill as prime Minister.

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07/30/1945.....The USS Indianapolis is sunk enroute to Leyte Gulf. Of the 1,196 aboard only 316 remained alive when they were rescued from the water almost five days later. It marked the worst American naval disaster of World war II.

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08/06/1945.....A U.S. B-29 named Enola Gay drops the " Little Boy" atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan

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08/08/1945.....The USSR declares war on Japan. Soviet troops invade Japanese held Manchuria.