Documents in Year 1945                     

Links of Interest:

• Franklin D Roosevelt, Thirty-second U.S. President

(1933-1945) As the war drew to a close, Roosevelt's health deteriorated, and on April 12, 1945, while at Warm Springs, Georgia, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

• Harry S. Truman, Thirty-third U.S. President

(1945-1953) Naval Aide 1945-1946 was:

James K. Vardaman



• Statehood

48 Continental United States of America, see 1959 for next addition

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• Literature: E.B. White publishes Stuart Little.

• Military: Japan surrenders after atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Holocaust Ends

was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime during

World War II

• Technology:

  ENIAC Introduced

Electronic Numeral Integrator and Calculator.  Even bigger than the Mark I (see 1944) and could perform 5,000 operations per second. It was used to help build the hydrogen bomb.
(See 1944 for previous computer science advancement.)
(See 1959 for next improvement in computer science.)
Source: Brainpop.com Click on Technology then Computer History

Percy LeBaron Spencer invents the microwave oven in 1945.