January: Soviets arrest Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg as a suspected spy. He saved tens of thousands of Jewish lives.

February: Allied leaders Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin meet in the Livadia Palace near Yalta to discuss the future of post-war Europe.

March: Anne Frank dies of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She will become the most famous Holocaust victim.

April: Adolf Hitler & Eva Braun, commit suicide in a bunker in Berlin. Their bodies are carried outside, doused in petrol & set alight.

May: The Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany ending the Third Reich & the war in Europe.

June: Aris Velouchiotis, leader of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS), the major resistance in Nazi occupied Greece dies.

July: In a test codenamed Trinity, U.S. Army detonates the first nuclear device in the Jornada del Muerto desert, New Mexico.

August: Enola Gay drops an atomic bomb 'Little Boy', on Hiroshima, Japan. Approximately 75,000 are killed in less than a second.

September: Japan's surrender is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General MacArthur on board USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

October: Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, is executed. He had permitted deportation of Jews to Nazi death camps.

November: The Nuremberg Trials begin at the Palace of Justice. The most important of these is the trial of Third Reich leaders.

December: General George Patton dies after an automobile accident. The colorful character inspired his troops & was feared by the Nazis.