Allied troops invade Luzon, Philippines, January 9, 1945
						Allies reopen a land route to China, January 22, 1945
						Red Army enters Warsaw, Poland, January 11, 1945
						Hungary declares war on Germany, January 21, 1945
						Soviet forces occupy Budapest, Hungary, February 13, 1945
						US Marines storm Iwo Jima Island, February 19, 1945
		( American Marines struggle to erect the United States flag on Iwo Jima, February, 1945)
	US troops land on Okinawa Island, April 1, 1945
	Vienna captured by Red Army, April 13, 1945
	Soviets reach suburbs of Berlin, April 22, 1945
	US and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, April 25, 1945
	German troops in Italy surrender, May 2, 1945
	Berlin surrenders to Soviet Army, May 2, 1945							(German Grand Marshal Keitel signs Germany's unconditional surrender, May 7, 1945)
	Germany surrenders to the Allies, May 7, 1945
							Allies issue the Potsdam Declaration, July 26, 1945
							United States bomber, Enola Gay, drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945
							US bomber, Bock's Car, drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945
							Japanese government opens up negotiations for peace, August 10, 1945
							Japan surrenders to Allies, August 14, 1945
		(Allied leaders meet at Potsdam, Germany to discuss the future of Europe, July, 1945
	Japanese officials sign terms of surrender on US battleship Missouri, September 2, 1945
	Japanese forces in China surrender, September 8, 1945
	Japanese forces in southeast Asia surrender, September 12, 1945
			(After dropping the devastating atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, a US aircraft drops another one 3 days later on Nagasaki, Japan)

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