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United States, France, Britain and the Soviet Union occupy zones of Berlin.
The four powers divided 'Germany as a whole' into four occupation zones for administrative purposes.Under the United States, United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union respectively; creating what became collectively known as Allied-occupied Germany. -
Potsdam Conference begins in Germany.
The Potsdam Conference, 1945. The Big three Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee, and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
United States Army Air Force drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
On August 6, 1945 the United States Army Air Forces dropped the atomic weapon "Little Boy" on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, becoming the first and only nation to have used nuclear weapons in war to date. The bomb released a mix of shock waves, heat rays and radiation, causing widespread devastation. -
United States Army Air Force drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
Bockscar, sometimes called Bock's Car, is the name of the United States Army Air Forces B-29 bomber that dropped a Fat Man nuclear weapon over the Japanese city of Nagasaki during World War II in the second – and last – nuclear attack in history. After the war, Bockscar returned to the United States in November 1945. -
Soviet Union and Poland sign treaty accepting Soviet-Polish frontier
On 28 September 1939, the Soviet Union and Germany signed the German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation, changing the secret terms of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. They moved Lithuania into the Soviet sphere of influence and shifted the border in Poland to the east, giving Germany more territory. -
The Vietminh seize power from Japan in French Indochina.
The Japanese invasion of French Indochina (Futsu-in shinchū) was a short undeclared military confrontation between the Empire of Japan and the French State in northern French Indochina. Fighting lasted from 22 to 26 September 1940, simultaneous with the Battle of South Guangxi in the Sino-Japanese War. -
Ho Chi Minh, proclaims the independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam
On September 2, 1945, Hồ Chí Minh read the Proclamation during a public meeting in front of thousands of people, at what is now Ba Đình Square, Hà Nội. Announcing the birth of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the country's independence from France. -
Communist-influenced nationalists proclaim the Korean People's Republic.
The People's Republic of Korea was a short-lived provisional government that was organized at the time of the surrender of the Empire of Japan at the end of World War II. It was proclaimed on September 12, 1945, as Korea was being divided into two occupation zones, with the Soviet Union occupying the north, and the United States occupying the south. -
Egypt and Syria warn that the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine will lead to war.
This timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict lists events from 1948 to the present. The Israeli–Palestinian conflict emerged from inter-communal violence in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Jews and Arabs, often described as the background to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The conflict in its modern phase evolved since the declaration of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948 and consequent intervention of Arab armies on behalf of the Palestinian Arabs. -
The government of Enver Hoxha in Albania is recognised by the Western powers.
Albania was one of the first Communist countries to denounce the revisionism of Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, siding with Stalin in 1948. Then, Mr. Hoxha cut his ties with the Soviet Union, too, at the height of Nikita S. Khrushchev's de-Stalinization campaign in 1961, about the time of the Chinese-Soviet split.
