Visual History - 1945

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1945

Complete Record: New Years Eve FDR - Jan 20th 1945 FDR's fourth term begins Airplane DOGfight America bombs third Reich Ruined Germany Feb 4th 1945 Yalta in Russian Crimea - Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill meet Feb 19th - Iwo Jima March 30th - FDR in Warm Springs Georgia April 12, 1945 FDR dies burial in Hyde Park, New York Benito Mussolini Slain on 28th, Hitler suicide - 30th of April Churchill and Eisenhower watch drop into Germany Colon Falls GI's enter Germany POW's freed May 1st surrender of Germans large Swastika blown up May 7th Rhiems France - official Surrender of Germany Charles DeGaulle calls America Europe's Savior Oak Ridge, Tennessee summer 1945 Goering and Doentz imprisoned as war criminals GI's Pacific bound - Okinawa United Nations Charter meeting in San Francisco Truman speaks for peace Oak Ridge Tennessee Kamikazes Truman in Berlin- meeting with Churchill and Stalin Atomic Bomb succeeds Truman's ultimatum to Japan Enola Gay - Aug. 6th Hiroshima Celebration of VJ day Sept 2nd - Japan officially surrenders Prince Namoro Shigamizu signs GI's come home