1945

Timeline

1944 ← 1945 → 1946

Before 1900

Prehistoric eras: Precambrian • Carboniferous • Permian • Cretaceous

B.C.E.: Last Ice Age • 30,000 • 8,000 • 1,100

C.E.: 1502 • 1853

1900-1999

1900-1949: 1908 • 1915 • 1920 • 1926 • 1931 • 1932 • 1933 • 1934 • 1938 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949

'50s: 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959

'60s: 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969

'70s: 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979

'80s: 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989

'90s: 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999

2000-present

'00s: 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009

'10s: 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019

'20s: 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024

Future

2027 • 2028 • 2030 • 2048 • 2097 • 2204 • 22,000

In the real world

March

• 9-10 March: Over the course of a single night, American strategic bombers destroy great swathes of Tokyo using incendiary bombs. The engagement is the single most destructive bombing raid in the history of military aviation, cut Tokyo's industrial productivity in half, and is estimated to have killed around 100,000 people.

May

• 8 May: Nazi Germany surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II in Europe, though some pockets of continued fighting take place in the Western Theatre until 11 May.

July

• 16 July: Trinity, the world's first detonation of a nuclear weapon, is held at the Jornada del Muerto desert in New Mexico, marking the beginning of the Atomic Age.

August

• 3 August: The Kyushu J7W Shinden makes its maiden flight. Two more test flights are conducted on the 6th and 9th of August, the same days as the two nuclear bombings.
• 6 August: The United States drops the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan using the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, leading to the deaths of 90,000 to 146,000 people.
• 9 August: The United States drops the Fat Man atomic bomb on Nagasaki using the B-29 Superfortress Bockscar, killing 39,000 to 80,000 people.
• 15 August: Emperor Hirohito announces the surrender of Japan to the nation.

September

• 2 September: The Japanese formally sign the surrender document aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, officially marking the end of World War II. From the time of the surrender until 28 April 1952, Japan is subject to occupation by Allied forces.

In fiction

• Nazi forces give the still-beating heart of Frankenstein's monster to the Imperial Japanese Navy, which in turn brings it to Hiroshima for study. The heart is irradiated when the United States destroys the city with the Little Boy nuclear bomb. Granted remarkable regenerative abilities, the heart grows a new body over the next fifteen years. (Frankenstein vs. Baragon)
• Ishiro Serizawa and his father survive the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, encountering a newly-awoken Shinomura that flies away. Godzilla, attracted by the radiation, briefly surfaces in Hiroshima Bay. Ishiro's father leaves him with his grandparents in Kyoto and becomes a sailor. (Godzilla: Awakening)
• Kantaro Tagruato establishes Tagruato in Kyushu, Japan. (Cloverfield Alternate Reality Game)^{[citation needed]}
• In August 1945, during the final days of World War II, a dinosaurian beast known by the locals as "Godzilla" raids a Japanese military airbase on Odo Island and kills everyone there but mechanic Sosaku Tachibana and reluctant kamikaze pilot Koichi Shikishima. Shikishima returns home to Tokyo in December 1945, only to find it ravaged by the massive firebombing that took place in March 1945. A few days after returning to Tokyo, Shikishima takes in a young woman, Noriko Oishi, and a baby she rescued, Akiko. (Godzilla Minus One)

Gallery

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  The mushroom cloud above Nagasaki caused by the atomic bomb

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