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| 1945 September 2 |
| | | World War II ends officially with the surrender of Japan, formally accepted by Douglas MacArthur | |
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| 1945 |
| | | [1939-1945] - the death toll in World War II, double that of World War I, includes 17 million Russians and 8 million Chinese | |
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| 1945 |
| | | [1939-1945] - by the end of the war the total number of Jews killed by the Nazis is around 6 million | |
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| 1945 |
| | | [1939-1945] - in addition to 6 million Jews, the Nazi death camps have killed some 400,000 Gypsies and 100,000 'useless defectives' | |
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| 1945 September |
| | | Wernher von Braun and his team of scientists are taken to the USA to develop the German V-2 rocket into an intercontinental ballistic missile | |
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| 1945 October 15 |
| | | Vichy leader Pierre Laval, sentenced in a French court as a collaborator, is executed | |
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| 1945 October 24 |
| | | Vidkun Quisling, Fascist president of occupied Norway from 1942, is tried and executed for treason | |
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| 1945 October 24 |
| | | Fifty-one states agree the Charter of the United Nations, thus establishing the UN | |
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| 1945 November 20 |
| | | Twenty-two German defendants are put on trial in Nuremberg, charged with war crimes | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Evelyn Waugh publishes Brideshead Revisited, a novel about a rich Catholic family in England between the wars | |
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