WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO APRIL 1945
Find out what all happened March to April 1945

World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia. (15. March 1945)

World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp. (11. April 1945)

World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army. (29. March 1945)

World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk. (9. April 1945)

World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends. (9. April 1945)

Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe. (25. April 1945)

World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna; Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig. (30. March 1945)

World War II: American troops capture Kassel. (4. April 1945)

The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians. (10. March 1945)

Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces. (17. April 1945)

World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II. (29. April 1945)

World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state, is established with Bảo Đại as its ruler. (11. March 1945)

World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland. (27. April 1945)

The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed. (9. April 1945)

World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union. (20. April 1945)

Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip "Tito" Broz signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory". (5. April 1945)

World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go. (7. April 1945)

World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier. (27. April 1945)

World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. 520 are killed and 80 escape. (22. April 1945)

World War II: Soviet forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters. (21. April 1945)