60th Anniversary of World War II: DAV honors the greatest generation.In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the end of the war, DAV See WebDAV. Magazine concludes its series of reminders of the historical events of World War II. November 1, 1945 - Navy declares the U55 Enterprise a national shrine November 9, 1945 - Paris Conference on Reparations reparations, payments or other compensation offered as an indemnity for loss or damage. Although the term is used to cover payments made to Holocaust survivors and to Japanese Americans interned during World War II in so-called relocation camps (and used as well to by Germany begins November 25, 1945 - Austria holds first post-war elections December 5, 1945 - U.S. Treasury U.S. Treasury Created in 1798, the United States Department of the Treasury is the government (Cabinet) department responsible for issuing all Treasury bonds, notes and bills. Some of the government branches operating under the U.S. Treasury umbrella include the IRS, U.S. lifts curbs on financial transactions with all foreign countries except enemy states December 6, 1945 - Gen. MacArthur orders the arrest of former Japanese premier Prince Furnimaro Konoye as a war criminal December 14, 1945 - An affidavit affidavit Written statement made voluntarily, confirmed by the oath or affirmation of the party making it, and signed before an officer empowered to administer such oaths. introduced at the Nuremburg Trials claims the Nazis had killed 6 million Jews Jews [from Judah], traditionally, descendants of Judah, the fourth son of Jacob, whose tribe, with that of his half brother Benjamin, made up the kingdom of Judah; historically, members of the worldwide community of adherents to Judaism. by August 1944 December 15, 1945 - Gen. MacArthur invalidates Japan's Shinto religion, which recognizes the emperor as divine December 17, 1945 - Nuremburg prosecution asks the Tribunal to declare all 500,000 members of the Nazi leadership corps guilty of war crimes December 21, 1945 - Gen. Patton dies of complications from an auto accident in Heidelberg December 21, 1945 - President Truman names Eleanor Roosevelt a representative to the U.N. December 27, 1945 - The International Monetary Fund becomes a special agency of the U.N. December 28, 1945 - President Truman signs the liberalized GI Bill of Rights December 29, 1945 - Army and Navy create a joint atomic bomb atomic bomb or A-bomb, weapon deriving its explosive force from the release of atomic energy through the fission (splitting) of heavy nuclei (see nuclear energy). The first atomic bomb was produced at the Los Alamos, N.Mex. advisory board |
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