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TIMELINE: December 1944 through April 1945
April 30, 1945
Hitler commits suicide
May 2, 1945
Soviets take Berlin
May 8, 1945
Germany surrenders (V-E Day)
July 16, 1945
‘Trinity” test at Alamogordo, New Mexico
July 17, 1945
Potsdam Conference begins
August 6, 1945
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
August 9, 1945
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan
August 14, 1945
Japanese surrender
September 2, 1945
Japanese sign surrender terms on board
the USS Missouri

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