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U.S. news• President Roosevelt, British PM Win-

ston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin sign the Yalta Agreement

• The USS Indianapolis is sunk by Japanese submarine killing 883 seamen. Many were killed by shark stack while awaiting rescue.

• USS Franklin severely damaged, 700 lives lost

• The U.S. takes control of Okinawa, Japan

• U.S. celebrates V-J Day (victory in Japan)

• U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima• Franklin Roosevelt dies in office• U.S. bomber crashes into the 79th

floor of the Empire State Building

Technology• Percy Spen-

cer accidentally discovers that mi-crowaves can heat food

• In 1945, only 5,000 homes have TV sets

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1945 Ford Sportsman

1945 Dodge Truck

Atomic bomb hits Hiroshima

U.S. Marines raising the flag over

Mt. Surabachi on Iwo Jima

Surveying the damage on USS Indiana after being hit by a 300 lb. bomb

British PM Winston Churchill, President Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin sign the Yalta Agreement

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Harry S. Truman33rd President of the U.S.

Served from Apr. 12, 1945 – Jan. 20, 1953

World events• Adolf Hitler moves into his

underground bunker, the so-called Fuhrerbunket

• Nazis begin to evacuate Auschwitz concentration camp

• U.S. troops lib-erate Buchenwald, a German concentra-tion camp

• Dachau liber-ated

• Manilla, capital of the Philippines, is liberated by Ameri-can forces

• Italian partisans execute Benito Mus-solini

• Britsh troops lib-erate Belsen concen-tration camp finding no running water and thousands of rotting corpses

• Adolf Hitler and his wife of one

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Vice President of the U.S. officeVacant by ascension of then VP Truman when Franklin Roosevelt died in office

“I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”— Harry S. Truman

day, Eva Braun, commit suicide• V-E Day commemorates the

end of WWII in Europe• Germany is divided between Al-

lied occupation forces• The U.S. detonates

an atomic bomb nick-named “Fat Man” over the city of Nagasaki, Japan

• Emperor Hirohito announces Japan’s sur-render on the radio

• WWII ends• First German war

crimes trial begins• Ho Chi Minh de-

clares independence of Vietnam from France

• United Nations cre-ated

• Five U.S. Navy bombers are lost in the Bermuda Triangle

1945 Cadillac Convertible

B-17 Flying Fortress bombing MarienburgAtomic bomb hits Hiroshima

British PM Winston Churchill, President Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin sign the Yalta Agreement