page_title: 1945 in the United States
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1945 in the United States / Events / January
caption_attribution_description: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933. Lietuvių: Franklinas Delanas Ruzveltas
context_page_description: Events from the year 1945 in the United States. World War II ended during this year following the surrender of Germany in May and that of Japan in September.
context_section_description: January – American troops cross the Siegfried Line into Belgium.
  January 6 – Naval lieutenant George H. W. Bush, future President of the United States, and future First Lady Barbara Pierce marry in Rye, New York.
  January 20 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated to an unprecedented fourth term as President of the United States. No president before, or since, reaches a third term in office.
  January 30 – Raid at Cabanatuan: 121 American soldiers and 800 Filipino guerrillas free 813 American POWs from the Japanese-held camp at Cabanatuan City, Philippines.
  January 31 – Eddie Slovik is executed by firing squad for desertion, the first American soldier since the American Civil War, and last to date to be executed for this offense.
caption: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President of the United States, began his fourth term on January 20
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2008:05:27 21:38:03", "Image ExifOffset": "164", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "302", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "4267", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2488", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2928"}