1945

• Women's suffrage becomes law in France

  Flag raising at Iwo Jima

  Atomic bomb droped on Japan

• Allies liberate death camps
• Flag-raising at Iwo Jima
• UN formed
• Battle for Okinawa
• Korea partitioned
• Yalta Conference plans final defeat of Germany
• Benito Mussolini executed
• Hitler commits suicide
• Soviet troops capture Berlin
• Germany surrenders
• Atomic bombs dropped on Japan; WW II ends
• Charles deGaulle elected President of France
• Sukarno - President of Indonesia
• Nuremberg War Crimes trials begin
• International Monetary Fund and World Bank established
• Henry Ford resigns in favor of his grandson
• Fluoridated water introduced to strengthen tooth enamel
• Start of the "Baby Boom"
• George Orwell's Animal Farm
• 1st use of streptomycin to treat tuberculosis
• Tupperware
• 1st microwave oven
• Broadway - "Carousel"
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anne Frank, David Lloyd George, Bela Bartok, George Patton, and Theodore Dreiser die

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