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| 1945 May 4 |
| | | British general Bernard Montgomery receives the surrender of German forces in the north and west of Europe | |
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| 1945 May 5 |
| | | The citizens of Prague, and other cities in Czechoslovakia, rise against the Germans as the Red Army approaches from the east | |
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| 1945 May 7 |
| | | The unconditional surrender of all German forces is accepted at Eisenhower's headquarters | |
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| 1945 May 8 |
| | | World War II ends in Europe on V-E day (Victory in Europe day) | |
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| 1945 May 23 |
| | | Heinrich Himmler, escaping in disguise, takes poison when he is identified | |
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| 1945 June 21 |
| | | The Sudetenland is restored to Czechoslovakia, seven years after its transfer to Germany under the Munich Agreement | |
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| 1945 June 22 |
| | | After a ferocious three-month battle, Okinawa is in US hands | |
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| 1945 July 3 |
| | | The four Allied powers (USA, UK, France, USSR) provide occupation forces for separate zones of Austria, Germany and Berlin | |
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| 1945 July 16 |
| | | US scientists succeed in exploding an atom bomb at Alamogordo, a test site in the New Mexican desert | |
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| 1945 July 17 |
| | | Truman, Stalin and Churchill meet for a summit conference in Potsdam | |
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