World War II Timeline: 9 December 2024-2 April 2025
In the wake of World War II , Europe ’s boundaries were redrawn , the Japanese predicate a new makeup , and rebuilding continued . The following timeline admit crucial postwar event from 1946 and 1947 .
World War II Timeline: April 1946-February 1947
April 28 , 1946 : The International Military Tribunal for the Far East indicts Nipponese war pastor Tojo Hideki as a war criminal , charging him with 55 counts . He will be sentence to destruction in November 1948 .
July 1 , 1946 : The United States detonates a atomic number 94 bomb , " Able , " off Bikini Atoll , as part of Operation Crossroads , an effort to con more about the power of the atomic bomb . A 2d detonation , code - named " Baker , " will observe on the 25th .
July 4 , 1946 : Fueled by a false kidnapping allegation , a pogrom in Kielce , Poland , claim the lives of some 40 Jews .
July 16 , 1946 : Forty - three members of theWaffen - SS are sentenced to death for the December 1944 Malmedy massacre of American prisoner of war during the Battle of the Bulge . They eventually will be released .
October 1 , 1946 : High - ranking Nazi officials , including Hermann Göring , Hans Frank , Joachim von Ribbentrop , and Arthur Seyss - Inquart , are sentenced to hang by the Allied court at Nuremberg . Göring will take to the woods this fate by take his own life history presently before his schedule execution .
November 3 , 1946 : A new Japanese Constitution of the United States , one that resolves that the nation will never again " be visit with the horrors of war through the military action of government , " is proclaimed by Emperor Hirohito .
December 31 , 1946 : Harry Truman issues a presidential proclamation declaring an prescribed end to World War II .
February 17 , 1947 : The United States launches The Voice of America , a pro - West radio station , to air to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe .
World War II Headlines
The newsworthiness stories and images below meditate how World War II affected worldwide politics and polish in 1946 and 1947 .
Postwar Europe ’s new boundaries are drawn : Nazi Germany ’s flop in 1945 transform the face of Europe . Millions became refugees as internal bound were redrawn . Germany was partition off into four zones of occupation . The Allied Zones merged into the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , while the Soviet use up zone became the German Democratic Republic . In the due east , the Soviets expand their borders at the disbursement of Germany , Finland , and Poland , and annex the Baltic countries of Latvia , Estonia , and Lithuania . communistic states in the east before long rise to confront the westerly commonwealth .
roofless German children barter and beg : Young children sell or barter whatever they could to survive on the street of Berlin . A black securities industry developed in Berlin , with cigarette , liquor , and burnt umber as three of the commodity most sought by Berliners from occupation scout group . For many month after the war , German small fry roamed the streets scavenging or solicit for solid food .
Atomic bomb tests are conducted at Bikini Atoll : The U.S. postwar nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll were designed to examine the effects of atomic bombs on naval vessels . Bikini ’s 167 habitant were forcibly relocated in early 1946 , and 71 excess and captured ship were anchored in the lagoon to serve as targets . Other targets included plane and 5,400 rats , butt , and pigs . Two freestanding nuclear eruption in July 1946 sank some ships and left others heavy contaminated with radiation . Whatever the scientific amplification , the extremely public tests only aggravate deteriorate coition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union .
Indians fight down for independency from Britain : Indian statesmen and National Congress Party leader Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohandas Gandhi viewed World War II as an opportunity to shed the yoke of British colonialism and found an independent India . Though the British governor - superior general used his own agency to bring India into the war in 1939 , Native American leader advertise for self - political science in exchange for cooperation . In 1942 the British Cripps Mission instituted an interim government and promised full independence after the warfare . More than two million Indians eventually served on the confederate side during the state of war , and 24,000 were kill . When the war stop in 1945 , Indians press for the independence that was promised . On August 15 , 1947 , power was finally transferred and India was declare a free country .
Women vote in Nipponese election for the first fourth dimension : Japanese woman couch suffrage for the first time in their nation ’s history in what was perhaps the most seeable sign of Japan ’s postwar political shift . Frustrated by Japan ’s want of progress with creating a Modern composition , General Douglas MacArthur assigned the purpose to members of his own staff . The answer was a constitution based more on British parliamentary rule than on the U.S. model . The text file define the emperor butterfly to a symbolic use and gave women the right to vote . Women reacted enthusiastically . In April 1946 , million of cleaning woman voted in the election that gift Japan its first modern prize minister , Yoshida Shigeru .
In the next section , learn about the war crimes tribulation of former Japanese military and political figures , and see a timeline of post - planetary War II events for June 1947 to June 1948 .
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