THE AMERICAS-1945

The Americas!

04/01/1945 The USA issue's its casualty figures to the 21st December 1944 as 135,323 killed, 362,824 wounded, 75,844 missing and 64,148 captured. 02/02/1945 Ecuador declares war on Germany. 08/02/1945 Paraguay declares war on Germany. 12/02/1945 Peru declares war against Germany. 14/02/1945 Uruguay declares war against Germany. 28/03/1945 Argentina declares war against Germany. 12/04/1945 After suffering a massive cerebral hemorrhage, President Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs in Georgia, aged 63. Harry Truman is sworn in as 32nd President of the United States. 25/04/1945 Beginning of the San Francisco Conference convened to discuss the founding of the United Nations. 12/06/1945 Eisenhower is awarded the Order of Merit and becomes the first U.S. recipient. 18/06/1945 Eisenhower arrives in Washington to a hero’s welcome. 23/06/1945 The San Francisco Conference Co-ordination Committee, completes the text of the UN Charter. 25/06/1945 The UN Charter is signed by representatives at San Francisco. 16/07/1945 At 5.30 am, the first atomic bomb is exploded at a test site in Los Alamos, USA 09/08/1945 Truman broadcasts from Washington about Potsdam conference and the atom bomb. 16/08/1945 Rationing of gasoline and fuel oil comes to an end in the USA. 22/08/1945 U.S. War Office estimates that there are a quarter of a million POW's and civilian internees in Japanese hands at present. 25/08/1945 7 U-boat men are executed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas for the murder of a fellow U-Boat man, Werner Drechsler who they had judged as a traitor. 16/10/1945 Peron returns to Argentine politics as a ‘strong man’. 24/10/1945 The United Nations formally comes into being with twenty-nine ratification's having been received. 23/11/1945 Butter rationing comes to an end, leaving sugar as the only item that continues to be rationed in the USA. 04/12/1945 The U.S. Senate votes to allow the USA to join the UN and to permit the UN to use American forces to preserve peace and security. 15/12/1945 The Permanent Headquarters for UN are to be established in the USA. 17/12/1945 The Senate votes for U.S. help in establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine. 19/12/1945 Eleanor Roosevelt, the widow of the late President is appointed as one of first U.S. delegates to the UN.