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August 2, 1945
On August 2, 1945, world War II: The Potsdam Conference ends. Bernard Arcand, Eddy Baldewijns, Gopalkrishna Gandhi would arrive in the same year.
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World War II: The Potsdam Conference ends.
The Potsdam Conference was held at Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone from 17 July to 2 August 1945, to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. They were represented respectively by General Secretary Joseph Stalin, prime ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, and President Harry S.
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1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1945th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 945th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1940s decade.
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1945 World War II: The Potsdam Conference ends. 1945 Allied meeting on the postwar world
The Potsdam Conference was held at Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone from 17 July to 2 August 1945, to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. They were represented respectively by General Secretary Joseph Stalin, prime ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, and President Harry S.
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- April 1 World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
- April 11 World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
- April 12 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman succeeds him.
- April 12 World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 80 kilometres from Berlin.
- April 13 World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
- April 13 World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna.
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