February 1945

Friday 02:

World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave to meet with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference.

Saturday 03:

World War II: Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific Theatre conflict against Japan.

Sunday 04:

World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin begin the Yalta Conference.

Monday 05:

World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.

Sunday 11:

Yalta Conference ends.

Tuesday 13:

World War II: The Royal Air Force bombers were dispatched to Dresden, Germany (see Bombing of Dresden in World War II).

Wednesday 14:

President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially starting the US-Saudi diplomatic relationship.

Friday 16:

1945 - American forces recapture the Bataan Peninsula.

Monday 19:

about 30,000 United States Marines land on Iwo Jima.

Friday 23:

1945 - World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed by a raid of 379 British bombers.

Saturday 24:

Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.