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retake Holland fails and the Dutch Hunger Winter begins. Viscount Wavell appointed Viceroy of India.
September–November: battle for Peleliu.
October: US Admiral King relegates German U-boats to threat rather than menace.
16 October: Secretary of State for India, Leo Amery, publicly acknowledges the Bengal famine in a speech in Birmingham. Soviet Red Army enters German territory.
20 October: US forces begin landing in the Philippines.
November: Lord Woolton appointed Minister of Reconstruction.
1945
28 January: Burma Road to China reopens.
February–March: Battle of Iwo Jima.
March: Allies begin air-dropping food into Holland.
9 March: US begins firebombing Japan’s major cities from the newly conquered Mariannas. Japanese seize control of Indo-China.
5 April: Koiso resigns as Japanese Prime Minister, replaced by Suzuki.
12 April: President Roosevelt dies and Harry Truman becomes President.
30 April: Hitler commits suicide.
April–June: battle of Okinawa.
8 May: Victory in Europe day.
May: first conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), John Boyd Orr elected Director-General.
18 June: US begins firebombing Japan’s smaller cities.
5 July: MacArthur announces the liberation of the Philippines.
17 July: Allied summit meeting at Potsdam.
26 July: Clement Atlee elected Prime Minister in Britain.
6 August: US drops first atomic bomb, on Hiroshima.
8 August: Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.
9 August: US drop second atomic bomb, on Nagasaki.
15 August: Japan surrenders.
16 August: US ends food rationing.
30 August: US occupation of Japan begins.
September: Canada reintroduces meat rationing.
1945–46
Worldwide drought.
1946
Civil war in China.
Spring: Herbert Hoover conducts a worldwide Famine Survey.
July: British government introduces bread rationing.
August–September: famine in Soviet Union.
September: Stalin reinstates central planning and the state distribution of food. Second FAO conference.
November: third meeting of FAO when US sabotages plan for World Food Board.
1947
April: Marshall Plan accepted by US Congress.
6 April: Herbert Backe commits suicide.
1947–48
Hunger protests in occupied Germany.
1948
April: Marshall Plan aid begins to arrive in Europe.
20 June: German currency reform.
1949
1 October: Mao Zedong founds the People’s Republic of China.

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