Events
- Charles de Gaulle becomes provisional president of France.[1]
- Ernest Hemingway settles in Cuba.[2]
- January 17: Warsaw is captured by Russians.[3]
- February
- February 7: Yalta Conference. Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin meet to discuss post-war objectives.[3]
- February 13-14: Dresden, Germany is bombed.[3]
- February 19-March 17: Battle of Iwo Jima. US Marines win a hard-fought victory on the Pacific Ocean island.[3]
- March
- March 7: US and British forces cross the Rhine.[3]
- March 12: Henry Walton Jones, Senior writes a letter from England to his son Indiana Jones, which he receives later in Ireland.[4]
- March 23: Manila is freed.[3]
- Indiana Jones and his father are involved in the search of the Lance of Longinus.[4]
- March-August: Indiana Jones passes these five months searching Gorsedd Arbeth in Wales.[4]
- April
- April 1-June 21: Battle of Okinawa. The United States of America wins a decisive victory on Japan's home turf.[3]
- April 12: Vice President Harry Truman succeeds as the 33rd president.[3]
- April 16-May 2: Battle of Berlin. Soviet army crushes German resistance.[3]
- April 25: Soviet forces meet American forces at Torgau on the Elbe River.[3]
- April 28: German resistance in Italy collapses.[3]
- April 30: Adolf Hitler commits suicide. Admiral Karl Doenitz succeeds him.[3]
- May 8: V-E Day. Germany surrenders.[3]
- May-August: Air offensive destroys the Japanese fleet and cripples industry.[3]
- July 16: Atomic bomb is successfully tested at Los Alamos, New Mexico.[3]
- August
- August 6[5]: The USA drops the atomic bomb on Japan.[4] The B-29 bomber Enola Gay drops "Little Boy", the first atomic bomb. on Hiroshima. An estimated two-thirds of the city destroyed and 140,000 dead from blast and radiation poisoning by year's end.[3]
- August 8: Russia invades Manchuria when Japan still refuses to surrender.[3]
- August 9: Three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the Rock's Car drops "Fat Man" on Nagasaki. Half of the city is destroyed and 70,000 are killed.[3]
- August 14: V-J Day. Japan unconditionally surrenders.[3]
- August 14: A newspaper article is published regarding the expansion of Soviet Union.[6]
- John Ford returns in Hollywood.[7]
- Paul Robeson plays Othello in New York City.[8]
- First manned rocket flight is attempted, but fails, killing its German pilot.[3]
- First particle accelerator is invented.[3]
- September 2[5]: Formal Japanese surrender is signed aboard the USS Missouri.[3] World War II ends.[9]
- Japan rule over Korea ends.[10]
- United Nations are formed.[11] United Nations charter signed. Spain is denied entry because of totalitarian government.[3]
- French put down nationalist uprising in Algeria.[3]
- France occupies Vietnam and Cambodia.[3]
- Airtight containers are introduced.[3]
Deaths
- March: Ireland[4]
- April 12: Franklin Delano Roosevelt in United States of America[3]
- April 28: Benito Mussolini in Italy[3]
- April 30: Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Germany[12]
- August 10: Robert Goddard[13]
- December 21: George Smith Patton, Jr.[14]
Appearances
- South of the Border (Glossary)
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Revolution (Mentioned only)
- The Day of Destiny (Historical Note)
- Trek of Doom (Historical note)
- Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny
- Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine (Newspaper)
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull audio pack (Historical note)
- Indiana Jones: The Search For Buried Treasure (Mentioned only)
Sources
- Who Are Those Guys? (Non-fiction source)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark Sourcebook
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Sourcebook
- The World of Indiana Jones
- Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Templars
- Indiana Jones and the Rising Sun
Chapter 8: The Trenches of Hell on The Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones (backup link on Archive.org)- Chapter 16: Tales of Innocence on The Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones (backup link on Archive.org)
- Paul Robeson - Scandalize My Name (Non-fiction source)
- Robert Goddard - Mr. Rocket Science (Non-fiction source)
- The World of John Ford (Non-fiction source)
- Interactive Timeline
Marshall College on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)- Adolf Hitler's Marshall College entry on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
- The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Annual 2009
Indiana Jones Masterpieces trading cards (Card: The Spear of Destiny)
Phoebe Waller-Bridge Shares Harrison Ford’s Advice For Taking a Punch On Screen on Lucasfilm.com (backup link on Archive.org)
Notes and references
- ↑ Chapter 8: The Trenches of Hell on The Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones (backup link on Archive.org)
- ↑ Chapter 16: Tales of Innocence on The Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones (backup link on Archive.org)
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 The World of Indiana Jones
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine
- ↑ The World of John Ford
- ↑ Paul Robeson - Scandalize My Name
- ↑ Trek of Doom
- ↑ Interactive Timeline
- ↑ Marshall College on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- ↑ Adolf Hitler on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- ↑ Robert Goddard - Mr. Rocket Science
- ↑ Who Are Those Guys?
