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- 1: Australian troops land at Balikpapan, Borneo in the Western Allies last major land operation of the war
- 4: General MacArthur announces that the Philippines have been liberated.
- 6: Norway declares war on Japan.
- 10: US Navy aircraft participate in attacks on Tokyo for the first time.
- 14: Italy declares war on Japan.
- 16: U.S. conducts the Trinity test at Alamogordo, New Mexico, the first test of a nuclear weapon.
- 17: The Potsdam Conference begins. The Allied leaders agree to insist upon the unconditional surrender of Japan.
- 22: America and Japan engage in a small bloodless skirmish in the Battle of Tokyo Bay. The Japanese take slight losses
- 24: Truman hints at the Potsdam Conference that the United States has nuclear weapons.
- 24: British and Americans commence the Bombing of Kure
- 26: The Labour Party win the United Kingdom general election by a landslide. The new United Kingdom Prime Minister Clement Attlee replaces Churchill at the negotiating table at Potsdam. Potsdam Declaration is issued.
- 28: The Japanese battleship Haruna is sunk by aircraft from US Task Force 38.
- 30: The USS Indianapolis is sunk shortly after midnight by a Japanese submarine after having delivered atomic bomb material to Tinian; because of poor communications, the ship's whereabouts are unknown for some time and many of its men drown or are attacked by sharks in the next four days.
- 31: US air attacks on the cities of Kobe and Nagoya in Japan.
Read more about this topic: Timeline Of World War II (1945)
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