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January 25, 1945
On January 25, 1945, world War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends. Bernard Arcand, Eddy Baldewijns, Gopalkrishna Gandhi would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · January 25, 1945
World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and referred to by the Germans as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein, was an offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World War, taking place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg and was intended to stop Allied use of the Belgian port of Antwerp and to split the Allied lines, allowing the Germans to encircle and destroy each of the four Allied armies and force the western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis powers' favor.
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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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On January 25, 1945
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1945 World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends. World War II battle, 1944–1945
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and referred to by the Germans as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein, was an offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World War, taking place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg and was intended to stop Allied use of the Belgian port of Antwerp and to split the Allied lines, allowing the Germans to encircle and destroy each of the four Allied armies and force the western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis powers' favor.
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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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