The Cold War- And the Space Race

1945- The first atomic bomb is tested in Las Vegas, USA. The Yalta and Potsdam conferences are held. Roosevelt's death, Harry Truman succeeds him. Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of England. Italy: capture and execution of Mussolini at the hands of partisans. In Germany, the Western Allies enter Vienna, and the Russians occupy Berlin, where Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, commit suicide. The war ends in Europe, the collapse of Germany, which is divided into zones of occupation between Russians, English, French, and Americans. Stalin founds the Democratic Republic of Germany. Russian troops invade Japanese territories in Asia, declaring the end of the non-aggression treaty. Asia: Ho Chi Minh proclaims the Republic of Vietnam; first battles against the French. The Russian writer Tolstoy dies. The Avachinskaya volcanoes (USSR) and Ruang, from Java, erupt. Earthquake in Japan: 2000 dead. The launching of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a Japanese capitulation ended World War II. Despite the Japanese surrender, the Russians continue to advance in Manchuria, without finding opposition: conquest of Sakhalin and Port Arthur. The Hungarian composer Bela Bartok dies. The League of Arab States is created; they form it: Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Yemen. George VI, bishop of Armenia. Asia: A great famine punishes Indochina. America: revolution against the dictatorship of Medina in Venezuela. In El Salvador: Castañeda dictatorship...