1945
President Roosevelt, British Minister and Soviet Premier Stalin meet at Yalta.

U.S. Marines seize Iwo Jima in the Western Pacific. U.S. 6th Army lands on Luzon, and General MacArthur enters Manila, liberating the Philippines. Heavy Japanese air attacks fail to thwart successful U.S. invasion of Okinawa

President Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage and Vice President Harry Truman become President.

Germany surrenders and the United States takes control of southwestern Germany and sector of Berlin.

The United Nation opens in San Francisco and the United States Senate ratifies the United Nation's Charter.

The first atomic bomb, code-named Trinity, is exploded near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Three weeks later, U-235 atomic bomb (equal to 20,000 tons of TNT) dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days after this, a plutonium-based A-bomb is dropped on Nagasaki. Both cities are destroyed and more than 130,000 people are dead or missing as a result of the most powerful weapons ever used in a war. Japan announces its unconditional surrender on August 14 (V-Day) and signs the document the U.S. battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. U.S. forces under the supervision of General MacArthur, take over supervision of Japan.

American troops enter Korea south of the 38th parrallel replacing the Japanese.

The War Production Board lifts ban on the manufacture of consumer goods. Military plane production is cut in half. The National Wage Stabilizaton Board replaces the National War Labor Board.

President Truman asks Congress for special admission of displaced to the United States.

The Lend-Lease programs end. American aid to the allies amounts to about $49 billion.

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