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Key Events and Figures of 1945: A Historical Quiz

This quiz covers significant events and figures from the year 1945, including notable births and occurrences during the final stages of World War II. Test your knowledge on history and its key players.

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1 ________ – Paul Valéry, French poet (b.

2 ________ – Priscilla Presley, American actress

3 What does the following picture show?  October 18: Nuremberg trials begin, after Buchenwald closed.   January 27: The Soviet Union liberates Auschwitz.   Adolf Hitler, along with his wife Eva Braun, committed suicide on 30 April 1945.   October 24: The United Nations is formed. This was its flag. The modern version is slightly retouched.

4 What does the following picture show?  October 18: Nuremberg trials begin, after Buchenwald closed.   The "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, February 2 1945.   October 24: The United Nations is formed. This was its flag. The modern version is slightly retouched.   August 9: The mushroom cloud from the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air.

5 ________ – Gabrielle Weidner, Belgian World War II heroine (b.

6 ________ – Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b.

7 ________–15 – Operation Backfire: Three A4 rockets are launched near Cuxhaven in order to show Allied forces the rocket with liquid fuel.

8 ________, wife of Joseph Goebbels (suicide) (b.

9 June 21 – WW II: The ________ ends.

10 ________ – Bobby Hutchins, Our Gang films child actor (b.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Homestead Grays were the Negro League world champs every year from 1937 through 1945.
  • the First cabinet Gerhardsen in 1945 featured the first female Norwegian Government minister, Kirsten Hansteen.
  • the race movie, a genre of films produced for black audiences and featuring black casts, was very popular among African Americans in the United States between 1915 and 1945.
  • the ceremony marking the Japanese surrender of Timor on 11 September 1945 was held aboard HMAS Moresby.
  • the history of nuclear weapons and the United States includes around 1,054 nuclear tests between 1945 and 1992.
  • the game between FC Bayern Munich and 1860 Munich on 23 April 1945 in the Gauliga Bayern, ending 3–2, was the last official football game played in Nazi Germany.
  • the 1945 Trial of the Sixteen helped the USSR consolidate its control over Poland.
  • in 1945, entrepreneur Leonard Shoen founded U-Haul, first American cargo trailer-rental company.
  • Charles Butler McVay III, commander of the USS Indianapolis, was blamed when it was lost at sea in 1945 and only finally exonerated by the United States Congress posthumously in 2000.
  • Austrian mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger (1865–1945) showed how to compute the fundamental group of a knot.
  • French Army soldiers killed between 15,000 and 45,000 Algerian civilians in the Setif massacre of May 8, 1945, the same day as V-E day in Europe.
  • Labour's Alfred Dobbs was the shortest-serving post-war British Member of Parliament – just one day, before his death in 1945.
  • in 1945, Frederick C. Branch became the first African-American U.S. Marine Corps officer.
  • Bhulabhai Desai negotiated a secret power-sharing deal with Liaquat Ali Khan in 1945 that would have prevented the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan.
  • Air Marshal Sir Richard Gordon Wakeford flew Catalina flying boats in the Second World War, and was involved in the last sinking of a German U-boat on 8 May 1945.
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