1945

This page relates to the year 1945 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

UNO

Americas

Latin America

  • February 21st: opening of the extraordinary Pan-American Conference of Chapultepec, close to Mexico City, joining together 21 States of the American continent, which will try to establish a treaty on inter-American solidarity.
  • March 8th: The final declaration of the Conference of Chapultepec proclaims the principle of the equal rights for all the men “whatever their race or their religion”. The act of Chapultepec recommends the development of a reciprocal treaty of assistance. It is decided that the countries which did not declare yet the war with the forces of the Axis would make it in order to be able to adhere to the United Nations and thus to set up a powerful American group.
  • Entered in war of the Paraguay, the Uruguay, the Ecuador, the Venezuela, the Chile and the Peru. The Argentine enters in war on March 27th, one month and three days before the suicide of Hitler.
  • March 15th: After more than one century of military dictatorships, a reformist, Juan Jose Arévalo, are elected with the presidency of the Guatemala (fine in 1951).
    • New democratic Constitution in Guatemala, inspired by that of the Mexico, and new labor regulation (eight hour day, minimum wage, right to strike and of unionization). An institute of social security is created and a campaign against the alphabetism is launched.
  • July 28th: democracy with the Peru. Election as president of Jose Shine Bustamante, at the time of an exceptionally honest election. The American revolutionary popular Alliance, the great opposition party of Haya of Torre, which was not authorized to take part in it, is combined with Bustamante. Open one period of three years reformism.
  • July: Resignation of the Colombian president Alfonso López Pumarejo which thinks of promoting an agreement with the opposition. In 1946 the country enters during one time of extreme violence.
  • Argentinian October 9th, : The vice-president Juan Perón is raised of his functions by a fraction of the army which is hostile for him.
  • Argentinian October 17th, : An immense crowd of workmen and misfits invade the place of May of Buenos Aires to claim her rehabilitation with the government.
  • October 18th: With the Venezuela, a coup d'etat supported by the social democrat party AD ( Acción Democrática ) relieves Isaías Medina Angarita. The leader of the junta, Rómulo Betancourt, elected president, establishes the democracy ( trieno , 1945 - 1948): vote for all, land reform, revision of the royalties paid by the foreign oil companies, laws favorable to the trade unions, arbitration of conflicts, etc Strong of the popular support, the AD gains all the bys-election between 1946 and 1948.

  • October 29th, Brazil: Inversion of the president Getúlio Vargas with the Brazil and deposited the October 30th by a group of generals.

    • After the victory of the Allies, Vargas decides the election of a new president and a new congress for the December 2nd. The anxious soldiers, seize the capacity. Vargas is withdrawn in the Rio Grande C Sul. The officers indicate Jose Linhares, president of the Supreme court, to direct the government until the elections. The general Eurisco Dutra, candidate of the Social Partido Democratico , founded by Vargas, is elected with a majority PSD with the Parliament and the Senate in December (beginning of mandate on January 31st, 1946).

  • Jose Figueres To shoe form the social democrat party with the Costa Rica which multiplies criticisms on the corruption of the mode.

  • the Mexico becomes officially member of UNO.
  • GDP of the Latin America increases by 4,7% between 1945 and 1955 (Argentine 2,1%, Peru 4,8%, Ecuador 4,8%, Brésil 5,7%, Mexico 6,1%). With a demographic growth rate of 2,7%, the GDP per capita increases only by 2% in ten years.
  • the population of the Guatemala, made up of 75% of peasants and 80% of Indians speaking 19 languages, is illiterate to 72% (90% in the Indian areas).

Canada

the United States

  • the Nobel Prize of peace is allotted to American Cordell Hull.

  • 33% of inflation between September 1939 and August 1945.
  • 200 billion dollars of GNP.
  • 145 million inhabitants.
  • 12  466  000 American enlisted in the army, 322  188 killed, 700  000 wounded. The total costs of the conflict are of more than 300 billion dollar. It was covered by the loan (135 billion subscribed in goods wars) and by the tax (130 billion).
  • 150  000 European Jews emigrate in the United States after the war.
  • Development of the trade unionism. AFL and CIO count each one six million members in 1945.

Asia

Second world war Asia-Pacific Face

  • January 9th, Filipino: The Americans unload on the island of Luçon with 67  000 men
  • March 9th:
    • During 2 days, more 100  000 victims perish at the time of the Bombardement of Tōkyō by 300 American bombers B-29 which launch incendiary bombs.
    • Takeover by Japanese force against the French in Indo-China and with the Laos. French officers are parachuted to organize maquis.
  • April 2nd: Beginning of the Battle of Okinawa. The allied forces converge on Okinawa. More 500  000 soldiers will intervene in this operation amphibian. The island is completely conquered the June 21st (50  000 American victims, died or wounded).
  • April 5th, Japan: The government of Kuniaki Koiso decides to negotiate peace, but does not manage to impose its views to the soldiers and resigns.
  • April 7th: The American Naval Aviation runs the largest building of the Japanese navy, the battleship Yamato .
  • April 14th: Hundreds of American Boeing B-29 bombard Tōkyō.
  • May 17th - August 14th: Direct air attack on the Japan since Okinawa.
  • May 25th: The bombardments redouble on Tokyo.
  • July 11th: Occupation of the Mandchourie by the Soviets.
  • July 27th: “Declaration of Potsdam”: the joined together allies with Potsdam invite the Japan to go without conditions under penalty of destruction.
  • July 30th: The ship US Indianapolis is run by a Japanese submarine.
  • August 6th: After the rejection of the ultimatum of Potsdam, an American bomber releases a atomic bomb with the Plutonium on Hiroshima - Assessment: 75  000 died and 90  000 wounded on a population of 250  000 people.

See also: atomic Bombardments of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • August 8th: The the USSR declares the war with the Japan, it will occupy Sakhaline, the islands Kouriles, and invades the Mandchourie.
  • August 9th: One second atomic bomb, Conceited Man , is released on Nagasaki, making approximately 38  000 dead.
  • August 12th: Occupation of the North Korea by the Soviets.
  • August 14th: The emperor Hirohito announces the capitulation of the Japan to the radio. He asks in his short speech the stop of the engagements. It is the semi-official capitulation of the Japan.
  • August 15th: An agreement between the Soviet Union and nationalist China distributes their capacities in Mandchourie.
  • August 17th: Soekarno and Hatta proclaims the independence of the Indonesia. This proclamation marks the beginning of the decolonization, c´est the alarm clock of the south .
  • August 28th: The Allies occupy Japan (fine in 1952).
  • September 2nd: The emperor of Japan recognizes officially the defeat, by signing with the general Douglas MacArthur on the American battleship Missouri the document of his unconditional surrender. This act puts an end to the last conflict in the course of the Second world war and ratifies the occupation of Japan by the the United States.

  • the Japanese government remains in place on the condition of carrying out the instruction of the winners: demilitarization of the company, dissolution of the Zaibatsu (trusts enriched by industry by war), abolition of the police force controlling the public opinion, land reform, law on the working unions.

  • Communistes and nationalist is found face to face in China. Mao Zedong dominates North, penetrates in Mandchourie occupied by Soviet. Tchang Kaï-chek regains Nankin and recovers the majority of the big cities.
  • the Malaysia passes by again under British control.

Burma

  • January 3rd: The Britanniques take the island of Akyab and the Force 136 starts to deliver weapons “resistant” to the Burmeses.
  • January 25th: The 25e Indian division unloads on the Burmese island of Ramree, takes the town of Kyankpyu and occupies from now on all the peninsula of Myeban (January 27th). The Japanese blockade of the China is broken, the Chinese forces make the junction on the road of Burma completely released.
  • January 28th: The first convoy started from India and having taken the road of renamed Burma Stilwell road by Tchang Kaï-chek, arrives in China.
  • March 27th: The Communists of the AIB (National army with Burma), on the orders of the ex-collaborator Aung San, raise themselves against the Japanese and take the capital Rangoon, taken again the May 3rd by the 14th British army .
  • Be: Burma is reconquered by the British.
  • August 15th: Creation in Burma of the League antifascist of the people for the freedom (LAFPL) of which the goal is to fight against the the United Kingdom. The general secretary of this league Thakin Than Tun is the brother-in-law of the president Aung San who breaks with the Marxisme.

Korea

  • February: Partition of Korea: with the Conference of Yalta, the United States and the USSR intend themselves to divide Korea on the level of the 38 {{E}} parallel to take care of the rendering and the disarmament of the Japanese troops.
  • August 12th: Invasion of the North Korea by the Soviets. The USSR brings its supports with Kim It-sung, returned in Korea in September with a group of partisans antijaponais.
  • September 6th: Yo Unhyŏng proclaims the Popular republic in Korea occupied by the United States.
  • September 7th: The the United States, by their representative the Hodge general, dissolve the Committees of national release and declare the popular republic of the 6 illegal. They support the nationalist Syngman Rhee.
  • September 10th: The Communist party of Korea (founded in 1925) installs its offices in Korea occupied by the Soviet Union.

  • the North Korea functions as from 1945 on a Stalinist diagram: the economy is completely socialized and the inhabitants must dedicate a worship of the personality to the communist leader Kim It-sung.

India

  • September 20th: The committee of the Congress side-Indian , joined together under the direction of the Mahatma Gandhi and the Pandit Nehru, disallows the British proposals of internal autonomy and request with the the United Kingdom to leave the India.

Indonesia

  • April 29th: The Japanese occupants accept the formation of a Board of inquiry for the preparation of independence. During the summer, the resistance movements control Java except for the cities.

  • August 11th: Soekarno and Hatta is invests of an about discrétionnaire capacity. Japan capitulates the 14/08.
  • August 17th: Two days after the rendering of Japan, the nationalists indonésiens carried out by Soekarno and Hatta proclaim the independence of the republic of Indonesia with respect to the Netherlands with Batavia which finds its name of Djakarta. The Netherlands are opposed to it.
  • August 18th: A Constitution is proclaimed. Soekarno becomes president of the Republic of Indonesia; Hatta, vice-president.
  • Fine September: The British forces unload on the islands. For lack of troops, the British entrust to the Japanese the responsibility to maintain the order in the areas where they cannot intervene, but to Java, the Japanese civils servant must yield the place to their associate indonésiens under penalty of being shot down by the gendarmerie indonésienne. The local sovereigns join themselves the national government which promised to respect their statute. Dutch companies requisitioned by Japanese are nationalized. A republican army of volunteers is organized. Badly equipped, little tested, it is numerous and adapts quickly to the guerilla.
  • the conflict bursts when the Dutchmen try to take again in hand their old colony. While the troops Dutchwomen unload and that Van Mook arrives at Djakarta, Soekarno request the withdrawal of the Dutch troops, the suppression of the civil administration positioned back and the recognition of the government indonésien.
  • November: In front of the reserve of the British opinion and the international pressures (Muslim world, Australia, the United States), the Dutchmen must be solved to negotiate.
  • November 7th: Creation of the Masjumi (Advisory counsel of the Moslems of Indonesia), left Moslem conservative gathering the great landowners and certain elements the middle-class (commercial and contractors).
  • November 14th: Sutan Sjahrir becomes chief of the government of the Republic of Indonesia.

  • the shortly after independence, the production capacity of the Indonesia represents less than half of that of 1940. The country misses executives, all the important stations being reserved to the Dutchmen.

Indo-China

  • Takeover by force of the March 9th. The Japanese reverse by surprised the French colonial capacity which however collaborated with them.
    • Weak, because of the little of manpower compared to the invaders, short but heroic is the resistance of the French which shows the execution of prisoners and the general Emile Lemonnier. Captivity, tortures and maltreatment which does not have anything to envy those of the Nazis unroll in camps of internment where French civilians and soldiers are held. Curiously, more than 60 years after, these events are not commemorated nor even mediatized! to believe that all these French and Vietnameses were at the bad time and the bad place! Today, there remain survivors.
  • March 10th: Proclamation of the independence of the Kampuchea to Phnom Penh. The nationalists, supported by the Japanese, seize the power in Kampuchea.
  • March 11th: Proclamation of the independence of the Ass and the Tonkin to Hooted by the emperor Bảo Đại.
  • April 8th: With the Laos, the Japanese oblige Sisavang Vong, king of the Luang Prabang, to proclaim its independence.
  • August 10th: Revolution of August. Call to the insurrection launched by the committee of release of the people of Vietnam directed by Ho Chi Minh.
  • August 14th: Bảo Đại announces the annexation of the Cochinchine to its kingdom.
  • August 16th: Georges Thierry d' Argenlieu is named Haut-commissaire of France and commander-in-chief for the Indo-China, which it joined at the end of October.
  • August 19th: Seizure of power by the Vietnamese soldier-minh.
  • August 25th: The emperor of Vietnam Bảo Đại abdicates and lets the Vietnamese soldier-minh enter Hanoi and seize the power.
  • September 2nd: Ho Chi Minh proclaims the Democratic republic of Vietnam to Hanoi. Capitulation of the Japan which evacuates the Indo-China.
  • October 5th: Leclerc unloads with Saigon.
    • Under the terms of the agreements of Potsdam (August 2nd), the Chinese nationalists were to occupy the country in the north of the 16th parallel and the British the south of this line. However, the September 21st, the troops of the Leclerc general unload in Saigon and raise the British quickly.

  • 26 million inhabitants to the Vietnam.

Europe

Second world war European Face

  • May 3rd: Shipwrecks of the Cape Garded , of the Thielbek and the Deutschland run by RAF in bay of Lübeck.
  • May 4th:
    • Release of the completely empty camp of Neuengamme by the British army.
    • Rendering of the armies of Germany of North to the marshal Bernard Montgomery.
  • May 5th: Release of the camp of Mauthausen by the Americans
  • May 7th:
  • May 8th: The admiral Karl Dönitz capitulates. The final Act of capitulation is signed with Berlin by the Stumpff general, the admiral von Friedeburg and the marshal Keitel in the presence of the marshal Joukov (the USSR), of the general Spaatz (the USA), of the general Tedder (the U.K.) and of the general of Lattre de Tassigny (France).
  • May 9th: With 0:28, signature with Berlin with the Soviet Union of the capitulation of the Germany.

Eastern Europe

  • June 29th: The subcarpatic Ruthénie, taken by the Hungarians with the Czechoslovakia in 1939, is attached to the Ukraine. The RSS of Ukraine and the RSS of Bielorussia become full member of the the United Nations.

  • November 18th: The “patriotic Face” Bulgarian (Communist) obtains 75% of the voices to the general elections.
  • December 5th: Victoire of the “patriotic Face” Albanian of Enver Hodja with 93% of the voices.
  • December: Stalin makes concessions in his sphere of influence: free elections in Hungary and Austria, withdrawal of the Red Army with Czechoslovakia, acceptable elections in Bulgaria.

  • the Latvia reinstates the Soviet Union.

  • the USSR adopts a more tolerant religious policy.

Poland
  • April 21st: The the USSR sign a pact of friendship with the Popular republic of Poland.
  • June 28th: After the German defeat, a coalition organizes a Polish government of national union, fusion of the governments of London and Lublin, chaired by the Socialist Edward Osóbka-Morawski. This government is officially recognized the next month by the United States and Great Britain, which obtained Soviets the promise of free elections at the time of the Conférence of Yalta.
  • July 6th: The the United States and the the United Kingdom recognize the Polish Communist government, Stalin being rejoined meanwhile with their position as regards procedure with the Safety advice of the United Nations.

  • the conferences of Teheran (in 1943), of Yalta (in February) and of Potsdam (in August) fix the borders of the Poland at the Ligne Curzon in the east (limiting Poland to the purely Polish territories) and with the line Oder-Neisse in the west.

  • Taking into account the victims of the war (6 million including 3 Jewish million ) and of displacements of population, Poland does not count any more that 24 million inhabitants compared with 35 in 1939.

Yugoslavia
  • March 7th: Provisional government of the marshal Tito. It promulgates a reform program social and economic moderate.
  • April 5th: Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union allowing the “temporary entry of Soviet troops on the Yugoslav territory”.
  • May: The Yugoslav partisans enter Trieste.
  • June: Conferences of Moscow enters the representatives of the Soviets, the British and the two Yugoslav governments: merger plans of the Yugoslav royal government and the national Council of release.
  • massive Executions with Kočevski Rog, Teharje, etc
  • November 11th: Election of a constituent Assembly. The moderate ones, officially prevented from introducing candidates, boycott the elections. The candidates of the Popular front, controlled by the Communists, obtain 80% of the voices.
  • November 29th: The assembly proclaims the popular Federal republic of Yugoslavia.

Romania
  • February 24th: Communist coup d'etat and proclamation of the Popular republic of Romania.
  • March 3rd: Coalition government directed by Petru Groza, sympathizing communist formed under the Soviet pressure. The Communists occupy the majority of the stations - keys, at the sides of the Socialists and the national-liberals. In the months which follow, they get busy to remove any opposition.
  • March 23rd: Law on the Land reform in Romania: expropriation without allowances of the grounds of the “collaborators and war criminals” and of the properties of more than 50 ha. The redistribution is entrusted at country commissions often directed by communist workmen come from the cities. 1,5 million ha are confiscated and more than one million redistributed with 800  000 peasants, the constituting remainder of the “fields of State”.
  • August 6th: The Soviets recognize the government of Bucharest while the Anglo-Saxons want to make sure of his representativeness.
  • the king Michel tries to get rid of Petru Groza by forming a new democratic government”, including the parties liberal and peasant. Groza refuses to resign and the king calls some with Allied (royal coup d'etat). He withdraws himself with Sinaïa and refuses to sign the decrees of the government.
  • December: With the Conférence of Moscow in 1945, the British and the Americans require to recognize the government Groza the inclusion of representatives of PNP and the PNL, which is made not without reserve.

Hungary
  • January 20th: The Hungarian provisional government supported by the Soviets signs the armistice with Moscow and launches great reforms, in particular by confiscating the feudal and ecclesiastical properties.
  • February 13rd: Catch of Budapest by the Soviets after 50 days of combat.
  • April 4th: The country is released completely from the German invader. Allied Audit Board directed by the marshal Kliment Vorochilov in Hungary.
  • September 22nd: the Russia and the Hungary sign an economic agreement.
  • November 4th: The Party of the small holders, directed by Zoltàn Tidly, gains the legislative elections with the detriment of the Communist party with 57% of the mandates. The republic is proclaimed in January 1946 and Tildy elected president. A coalition government is formed, with a disproportionate participation of the Communists.

Czechoslovakia
  • Mars: Rudolf Slansky is elected general secretary of the Czechoslovakian Communist party.
  • April 4th: Edvard Beneš installs a Czech government, with strong communist proportion, Košice.
  • April 5th: The program of Košice adopts the principle of a republic where Czech and Slovak would be treated on an equal footing, with a program of nationalizations, a land reform and the planning of the economy.
  • May 5th: Knowing the arrival of the Soviet armies imminent, the population of Prague raises itself against the occupant Nazi.
  • May 9th: The Czech being raised against the Nazi S, the Red Army intervenes and releases Prague in the popular jubilation.
  • May 16th: The government Edvard Beneš settles with Prague.
  • In June, the Czechoslovakia yields the Ruthénie to the USSR.

Western Europe

  • January 1st: Swiss coming into effect in of the federal law of the December 16th 1943 relating to the legal organization.
  • March 3rd: Evacuation of the internees of Hinzert.
  • April 27th: Proclamation of independence in Austria. The social democrat Karl Renner form a government including of populist, the Communists and the Socialists.
  • In May, return of the first off-set S and prisoner of war.
  • May 12th: Speech of Fulton. First evocation by Winston Churchill of the “Iron curtain” which crosses the Europe.
  • May 14th: Proclamation of independence of the Austria.
  • May 23rd: Decree by the British, Himmler, Minister of Interior Department of Reich and organizer of the system of repression, commits suicide with Barnsted.
  • May 31st - June 25th: Control in exile of Johan Nygaardsvold returns to settle in Norway to resign at once, as it pledged of it.
  • June 5th: Declaration of Berlin on the statute of occupied Germany. It will be divided into zones entrusted to the the United States, with the Soviet Union, the Great Britain and the France, which exert the supreme authority. The area of Berlin, also cut out in zones, will be ordered by an Audit Board. The decisions concerning whole Germany will be made unanimously of the four powers.
  • July 9th: The agreements of London fix the four zones of occupation of Alliés in Austria. Vienna, divided into four sectors, is subjected to a quadripartite authority.
  • July 16th: The king Léopold II gives up returning in Belgium where the opposition to its return is very sharp. He however refuses to abdicate.
  • July 17th - August 2nd: Conference of Potsdam between Truman, the British Attlee and Stalin. The Soviet Union obtains territories of Eastern Prussia, the Western border of Poland is fixed temporarily by the line Oder-Neisse, the Germans of the released territories will be expelled. The Austria will not pay repairs. The peace treaties will be prepared by the Foreign Ministers of the five allied countries (with the China). Delimitation of the four zones of occupation in Germany. Stalin refuses the internationalization of the European water ways. The dismantling of the heavy industry of Germany is envisaged. The question of repairs is settled with the satisfaction of the USSR which obtains in Potsdam the right to take not only what it wants in its zone of occupation, but still a quarter of the equipment of the Western zones.
  • July 26th: Proclamation of Potsdam.
  • August 17th: the Indonesia takes its Indépendance Netherlands.
  • September 3rd: Application of the already committed land reform in Saxony in the Soviet zone of occupation: the properties of more than 100 ha are expropriées.
  • October 9th: In American zone, the local government is entrusted to the Germans. Creation of the Länder.
  • November 9th - December 21st: Conference of Paris on the repairs imposed on Germany.
  • November 20th: Opening of the Lawsuit of Nuremberg of 24 chiefs Nazis (verdict on October 1st 1946).
  • November 24th, Norway: The chief of the collaborator government Vidkun Quisling, condemned to died for high treason, is carried out.
  • November 25th: Victoire of populist in front of the Socialists with the legislative elections in Austria.
  • December 14th: The Procès of Nuremberg reveals the massacre of six million Juifs.
  • December 21st: End of the conference on repairs whereas the Soviets began the taking away in their zone. The Westerners will receive a certain percentage of capital equipment.

  • Beginning of the Cold war.

  • Greece: The Communists accept that their armed forces is dissolved.

France

See also: 1945 in France

the United Kingdom
  • Introduction of a system of family benefit by the conservatives with the beginning of the year.
  • May 23rd: Return of the Labor in the opposition.
  • 5 - June 26th: Crushing defeat of Winston Churchill with the British legislative elections. The members of the Labor Party gain 393 seats against 213 with the conservatives.
  • July 26th: Beginning of the Labor ministry of Clement Attlee, Prime Minister for the the United Kingdom (fine in 1951).
  • August: Stop of the agreement Lease-lend with the the United States.

  • the Labor program ( Let Custom Future Face the ) mark the United Kingdom according to 1945. The economic policy, of inspiration keynésienne, gives control to the State of important branch of industry. The working trade unions (trade-unions) enjoy a considerable force. They push with the rises of wages and refuse the dismissals, whereas the productivity believes slowly and the competitiveness of the British products worsens.

  • to finance the reforms, Keynes goes to Washington and secures a loan of 3,75 billion $ over fifty years at the advantageous rate of 2% after one five years frank period. N the other hand, the Great Britain is committed to ratify the Accords of Bretton Woods and restoring within twelve month the convertibility of the sterling out of gold.
  • the United Kingdom aligns 5 million combatants, nearly 5000 ships and more 10  000 planes. Its soldiers are present in Europe, in Africa, with the the Middle East and in Asia. The war made 400  000 victims, of which 60  000 civilians. The effort of war put the country at the edge of the bankruptcy (17 billion £ of total debt), but the British economy is in much better state than those of the other European belligerents, with the third world rank behind the the United States and the Canada.

Portugal
  • Authorization of the democratic Movement of union (MUD), opposition party. It will not have any representative with the room. This alleged political liberalization makes it possible Salazar to supervise the opponents.

  • Creation of the PIDE, international Police force of defense of the State (1945-1969). The instruction of the political lawsuits is officially removed with the judge to be entrusted to the political police. Special courts ( plenarios ) are created with Lisbon and Oporto.

Spain
  • June 19th: Pro-Franco Spain is excluded from future UNO with the conference of San Francisco.
  • July:
    • Judgment of Francoism with Potsdam.
    • the arrival of Alberto Martín-Artajo Álvarez as Foreign Minister inaugurates a new orientation (access of Christian democrats to the government).
  • July 19th: The Fuero of los Españoles (Charter of the Spaniards) proclaims the rights and the duties of the people.
  • a law of the October 22nd envisages popular consultations by referendum.

  • the Junta of national union and the Spanish Junta of release gather in a government in exile and prepare to enter in Spain.

  • Dissolution of the paramilitary militia of the Spanish Phalange.

Italy

  • March 3rd: Insurrectionary strikes in North started by the CLNAI. The Italian Communist party calls a few days later with armed rising.

  • March 28th: Strikes of the workmen of Milan and Turin.
  • April 18th: New strike of the workmen of Turin.
  • April: Doubled allied military offensive operations of the partisans in Italy of North.
  • 20 - 21 - April 22nd: Bologna, Modena and Reggio Emilia is evacuated by the Germans. In each of the three cities, the partisans rise and seize the power before the arrival of the allied troops.
  • April 24th: Insurrection of Genoa.
  • April 24th: Insurrection of Milan.
  • April 27th: Arrest of Mussolini by partisans whereas it tried to pass in Suisse.
  • April 28th: Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci is carried out by Italian partisans with Dongo with about fifteen hiérarques of which Pavolini.
  • April 29th: The British take Venice, Padoue, Like and the Americans Milan.
  • May 2nd: The German troops capitulate.
  • May 21st: The CLNAI installs provisional administrations everywhere, announcing a radical transformation of the policy and company in Italy of North, but Togliatti announces with Milan that the Italian Communist party had decided to transform the Italian company by legal channel, the parliamentary practice and the participation in the government of the CLN.
  • May: Ivanoe Bonomi resigns under the pressure of the new political situation.
  • June 19th - December 8th: Government of Ferruccio Parri, leader of the party of Action.
    • the partisans of High-Italy take possession of many companies, expropriant the marked owners of collaboration, their substituent of the “fabric committees” managed by the workmen. The government decides a financial purification aiming at the companies having earned money for the fascistic period. With the autumn, Parri prepares an economic plan envisaging a capital tax and of the advantages to small industries. These projects worry the civils servant of the allied Commission which controls Italy of North, and it obtains the dissolution of the councils of factories and the withdrawal of any responsibility to the CLNAI.
  • November 24th: Under the pressure of the liberal party (preserving), Ferruccio Parri must resign.
  • December 4th: After long negotiations, the Christian-Democrat Alcide De Gasperi form a government with the Communists and the Socialists.
  • December 29th: Congress of the Italian Communist party in Rome (end the January 8th 1946). He states to want to deal with the heritage of the Risorgimento and the defense of the national values.

  • the industrial production accounts for 23% of that of 1938. 1,6 million unemployed.

Africa

  • 8 - May 13rd, Algeria: Massacre of Sétif and Guelma at the time of the celebration of the capitulation Nazi. These demonstrations led to Algerian nationalist riots. There was 12  000 with 15  000 dead Algerian following military repression in answer to the assassination of 109 colonists by the Arab rioters. Independent Algeria fixes at this date the true beginning of the Guerre of Algeria and she asserts 45  000 deaths due to military repression.
  • September: General states of the Colonization joined together with Douala, reaffirming the attachment of the colonists to the retrograde forms of colonization. Nationalist riots burst in the French part of the Cameroun and are repressed in blood.
  • December 20th: Creation of CFA franc (French Colony of Africa), with a parity of 1 CFA franc for 1,70 metropolitan franc, then starting from the October 17th 1948, of 100 CFA francs for 200 French francs.

  • the Libya and the Somalia are put under mandate of UNO.

  • Strikes with Douala and the Belgian Congo.
  • Strikes in Rhodesia and South Africa.
  • agrarian Riots with the Bouganda.
  • First Africans at the Legislative council with Zanzibar, the Tanganyika and in Uganda.
  • Richards Constitution with the Nigeria. Protest campaign and general strike orchestrated by Nnamdi Azikiwe.
  • Ve Panafrican Congrès of Manchester proclaims the “determination of the Africans to being free”. Kwame Nkrumah creates a West African National secretariat, actively supported by the WASU ( West Africa Students Union ) to apply the resolutions concretely of them. This movement promotes the idea of a West African Federation, first level towards the realization of the United States of Africa.
  • Phase of growth and economic diversification in West Africa (1945 - 1955).
  • Creation of the college Small terrace of Ferns of Bamako.
  • Publication of the Voice of the Congolese . The review appears regularly of 1945 with 1959 under the authority of its editor association Antoine-Roger Bolamba.

Peaceful Oceania &

the Middle East

  • January, Egypt: The Prime Minister Ahmad Maher organizes elections which are boycotted by the Wafd. The parties of the government gain the majority of the parliamentary seats. Egypt then declares the war with the powers of the Axis, involving the dissatisfaction with the radical political clouts.
  • February 14th: Meet historical on board the US Quincy , on the Suez Canal, between the US president Franklin D. Roosevelt and the king Abd el-Aziz Ibn Saoud of Saudi Arabia.
    • the Great Britain decides to reduce its subsidy to the Saudi Arabia while the United States maintains theirs. They send a military mission charged to inform the Saoudi army and obtain the possibility of establishing a military base with Dahran. Of return of Yalta, Roosevelt at sea meets Ibn Its' ud Rouge on the cruiser Quincy .
  • February 23rd: The Turkey declares the war with the Germany and the Japan.
  • February 24th: Egyptian the Prime Minister Ahmad Maher is assassinated by a young nationalist.
  • March 22nd: With Alexandria (Egypt), creation of the the Arab League with like founding members: The Egypt, the Iraq, the Lebanon, the Saudi Arabia, the Syria, the Transjordanie and the Yemen of North. It must support the co-operation between its members. Abd Al-Azzam Pasha, an Egyptian, is named first general secretary of the League.
  • May 29th: After demonstrations claiming promised independence, a true revolt bursts with the Lebanon and in Syria. Bloody confrontations take place with Damas between the French Army and the Syrian police force. The French bombard Damas. The Great Britain threat to intervene militarily. A cease-fire is proclaimed and the French troops return in their barracks.
  • June 21st: The Syria and the Lebanon raise all the French of their services.
  • July:
    • the Saoudi emir Faysal goes to the United States.
    • Truman request with the Great Britain which it delivers 100  000 certificates of immigration in Palestine for the survivors of the Shoah. In front of the refusal of London, Truman decides to carry the question about the public place.
  • October: Popular demonstrations for the withdrawal of the British troops in Egypt. They degenerate into acts of plunderings and violences.
  • December 13rd: French and British negotiate their final evacuation of Syria and Lebanon.
  • December 20th: The Egyptian government asks officially for the amendment of the treaty of 1936 with the Great Britain.
  • December: In Iraq, Kurdish rising carried out by Mulla Mustafa Barzani is repressed. Barzani takes refuge with her partisans in the Kurdistan iralien to create the République of Mahabad.

  • Attacks successive in the Jewish district of the Cairo, perpetrated by the Muslim brothers.

  • At the end of the period agent, the Jewish properties account for 6,6% of the total surface area of the Palestine and approximately 12% of useful agricultural surface.
  • Of the important oil incomes occurs for the countries of the Gulf after 1945.

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