Under the Treaty of Manila, the United States recognises the independence of the Republic of the Philippines.
ENIAC, the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, is unveiled to the public at the University of Pennsylvania.
At Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill declares that an "iron curtain" has descended across Europe, a symbolic marker of the early Cold War.
War between the Việt Minh and France breaks out in Hanoi and lasts until the Geneva Accords of 1954.
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta to discuss the post-war reorganisation of Europe and the world.
Japan overthrows the French administration in Indochina; Bảo Đại then proclaims the Empire of Vietnam with Trần Trọng Kim as prime minister.
One of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War, causing heavy losses among soldiers and Okinawan civilians.