Visual History - 1945

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