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| 1945 August 19 |
| | | With the surrender of the Japanese, Vietminh guerrillas seize the capital of Vietnam, Hanoi | |
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| 1945 August 29 |
| | | Douglas MacArthur – in his role as Supreme Commander, Allied Powers – is appointed to administer postwar Japan | |
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| 1945 September 2 |
| | | Ho Chi Minh proclaims the democratic republic of Vietnam, independent of the colonial power, France | |
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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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| 1945 |
| | | In George Orwell's fable Animal Farm a ruthless pig, Napoleon, controls the farmyard using the techniques of Stalin | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Richard Wright publishes Black Boy, an account of his early life in Mississippi and then Chicago | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Sergei Eisenstein completes Part 2 of his intended epic film trilogy Ivan the Terrible | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Sadler's Wells Ballet moves to the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden (and is known from 1956 as the Royal Ballet) | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Perón, with the orchestrated support of gangs of thugs, is elected president of Argentina | |
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| 1946 |
| | | The takeover of the Bank of England launches an extensive programme of nationalization by the Attlee government | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Eudora Welty sets her novel Delta Wedding in a contemporary southern plantation | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Howard Hawks directs Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Syria becomes fully independent with the withdrawal of French forces | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Aung San's party, the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, wins a landslide victory in the Burmese election | |
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