- FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met at Yalta

- U.S. Marines captured Iwo Jima

- U.S. Army reached the Rhine River

- FDR died of cerebral hemorrhage

- Harry Truman became president

- Soviets reached Berlin

- Mussolini was executed

- Hitler committed suicide

- Germany surrendered

- U.S. forces took Okinawa

- U.S. forces re-captured the Philippines

- First atom bomb was tested in New Mexico

- Truman, Stalin and Churchill met at Potsdam

- Soviets declared war on Japan

- First atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima

- Second atom bomb was dropped on Nagasaki

- Japan surrendered unconditionally

- U.S. and USSR occupied divided Korea

- Ho Chi Minh proclaimed Vietnam an independent republic

- Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-Tung forces began fighting for control of China

- There, I've Said it Again (Vaughn Monroe)

- Sentimental Journey (Les Brown & Doris Day)

- It's Been a Long, Long Time (DeMarco Sisters)

- Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive (Johhny Mercer)

- Temptation (Perry Como)

- Cocktails for Two (Spike Jones)

- Till the End of Time (Perry Como)

- This Heart of Mine (Judy Garland)

- Moonlight in Vermont (Billy Butterfield & Margaret Whiting)

- Chickery Chick (Sammy Kaye)

- Ballpoint pens

- Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

- Fluoridated water

- Tupperware

- Microwave oven

- National Wage Stabilization Board (replaced National War Labor Board)

- Office of Economic Stabilization

- Oral penicillin

- Trademark "Coke"

- Cleveland Buckeyes were Negro Baseball League champs

- Cleveland Rams were NFL champs

- Army was college football champ

- Oklahoma A&M won the NCAA basketball title

- Felix "Doc" Blanchard of Army won the Heisman Trophy

- Sgt. Frank Parker won the men's U.S. Open tennis title

- Sarah Palfrey Cooke won the women's U.S. Open tennis title

- "Hoop Jr." won the Kentucky Derby

- Arthur Godfrey Time

- The Dinah Shore Show

- The Adventures of Topper

- The Fat Man

- The Adventures of Superman

- Blondie

- The Adventures of Ellery Queen

- Mr. District Attorney

- The War Manpower Commission lifted all controls on wages

- Most rationing ended

- The manufacturing of civilian automobiles resumed

- Overseas servicemen voted Rita Hayworth as "Number One Back Home Glamour Girl"

- Thousands paid last respects as train carried FDR's body from Georgia to Washington

- Gene Kelley and Fred Astaire danced together in the film Ziegfeld Follies

- Anchors Aweigh

- The Bells of St. Mary

- Mildred Pierce

- Spellbound

- Road to Utopia

- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

- The Story of GI Joe

- The Picture of Dorian Grey

- Best Director: Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend)

- Best Actress: Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)

- The Robe, Lloyd C. Douglas

- The Black Rose, Thomas B. Costain

- The White Tower, James Ramsey Ullman

- Cass Timberlane, Sinclair Lewis

- A Lion is in the Streets, Adria Locke Langley

- So Well Remembered, James Hilton

- Captain From Castile, Samuel Shellabarger

- Earth and High Heaven, Gwethalyn Graham