Nomi is a teen-ager
An important year in world & Jewish history
Dresden at the end of the war
World War II In Europe Ended - on May 7, 1945, German officials signed surrender documents with Allied forces. The next day was proclaimed as V-E Day (for "victory in Europe) Some German territory was transferred to Poland to make up for land taken from Poland by the Soviet Union. The somewhat smaller Germany was then divided into four zones under military occupation by France, Great Britain, the United States, and theSoviet Union. Berlin, the capital, was similarly divided. The country recovered from war rapidly, with the help of foreign aid, and became the most prosperous nation in Europe by the 1970s. East Germany, on the other hand, remained economically stifled by Communist rule. And unfortunately Nomi's house stayed on the east side…

 

  The Founding of the Arab League

The Arab states of the Middle East formed a regional association called the Arab League on March 22, 1945, in Cairo. Founding members were Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Other Arab states joined in the coming decades. The Palestine Liberation Organization, a stateless society, joined in 1976. The purpose of the league was to strengthen and coordinate political, economic, and social programs of mutual interest for all the states involved. In time the organization became increasingly political, mostly because of the persistent Arab-Israeli conflict. The presence of Israel, however, brought more internal dissension to the league than agreement.

 


It was also the year Tito comes to power in Yugoslavia

Josip Broz, better known as Tito, became a prominent Yugoslav resistance fighter during World War II. Tito's Partisans were very effective in fighting German occupation of Yugoslavia. In 1943 Tito set up a provisional revolutionary government. After the war he established a Communist dictatorship in his country. He was a nationalist, and was determined to govern without orders from Stalin in Moscow. Stalin's prediction that the Tito's government would collapse did not prove true. It grew stronger and began making closer ties with the West. Yugoslavia eventually emerged as an unaligned nation, beholden to neither the Soviet Union nor the United States. This regime lasted until Tito's death in 1980. With Tito gone, Communist power began to disintegrate in Yugoslavia, and the separate republics began seeking independence. Ancient ethnic and religious rivalries reasserted themselves, and civil war in the early 1990's .
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