List of state leaders in 1945

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3.1 East, South and Southeast Asia
3.2 Middle East
3.3 Central Asia

Africa

Egypt Head of state: King Farouk (1936-1952)
Head of government: Prime Minister Ahmed Maher Pasha ( 1944-24 February. , 1945 )
Prime Minister Mahmoud an- Nukrashi Pasha (26 February 1945-1946 )

Ethiopia Emperor Haile Selassie (1941-1974)

Liberia Heads of State and Head of Government: President William VS Tubman (1944-1971)

South Africa Head of state: King George VI. (1936-1952)
Governor General Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet (1943-1946)
Head of government: Prime Minister Jan Smuts (1939-1948)

America

North America

Canada Head of state: King George VI. (1936-1952)
Governor General: Prince Alexander of Cambridge (1940-1946)
Head of government: Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (1935-1948)

Mexico Heads of State and Head of Government: President Manuel Ávila Camacho (1940-1946)

United States of America Heads of State and Head of Government: President Franklin D. Roosevelt ( 1933-12. April 1945 )
President Harry S. Truman (April 12, 1945-1953 )

Central America

Costa Rica Heads of State and Head of Government: President Teodoro Picado Michalski (1944-1948)

Dominican Republic Heads of State and Head of Government: President Rafael Trujillo (1942-1952)

El Salvador Heads of State and Head of Government: (provisional) Osmin Aguirre y Salinas ( 1944-1. March 1945 )
President Salvador Castaneda Castro (March 1, 1945-1948 )

Guatemala Heads of State and Head of Government: Military junta Francisco Javier Arana, Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, Jorge Toriello Garrido ( 1944-15. March 1945 )
President Juan José Arévalo (15 March 1945-1951 )

Haiti Heads of State and Head of Government: President Elie Lescot (1941-1946)

Honduras Heads of State and Head of Government: President Tiburcio Carias Andino (1933-1949)

Cuba Heads of State and Head of Government: President Ramón Grau San Martín (1944-1948)

Nicaragua Heads of State and Head of Government: President Anastasio Somoza García (1937-1947)

Panama Heads of State and Head of Government: President Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango ( 1941-15. June 1945 )
(provisional) Enrique Adolfo Jiménez Brin (June 15, 1945-1948 )

South America

Argentina Heads of State and Head of Government: President Edelmiro Julián Farrell (1944-1946)

Bolivia Heads of State and Head of Government: President Gualberto Villarroel López (1943-1946)

Brazil Heads of State and Head of Government: President Getúlio Vargas ( 1930-29. October 1945 )
( temporarily ) José Linhares (29 October 1945-1946 )

Chile Heads of state and head of government: President Juan Antonio Ríos (1942-1946)

Ecuador Heads of State and Head of Government: President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río ( 1940-29. May 1944 )
President Julio Teodoro Salem Gallegos ( 29 May to 31 May 1944)
President José María Velasco Ibarra (May 31, 1944-1947 )

Colombia Heads of State and Head of Government: President Alfonso López Pumarejo (1942 - July 1945 )
(acting) Alberto Lleras Camargo (July 1945 to 1946, to August 7, acting)

Paraguay Heads of State and Head of Government: General Higinio Morinigo (1940-1948)

Peru Heads of State and Head of Government: President Manuel Prado y Ugarteche ( 1939-28. July 1945 )
Bustamante y Rivero, José Luis (28 July 1945-1948 )

Uruguay Heads of state and head of government: President Juan José de Amézaga (1943-1947)

Venezuela Heads of State and Head of Government: Isaías Medina Angarita General (1941-1945)
President Rómulo Betancourt (1945-1948)

Asia

East, South and Southeast Asia

Bhutan Ruler: King Jigme Wangchuk (1926-1952)

China Head of state: Chairman of the National Government, Chiang Kai -shek (1943-1948)
Head of government: Chairman of the Executive Yuan Chiang Kai- shek ( 1939-31. May 1945 )
Chairman of the Executive Yuan's TV Soong (May 31, 1945-1947 )

British India Kaiser: George VI. (1936-1947)
Viceroy Archibald Wavell (1943-1947)

Japan Head of State: Emperor Hirohito (1926-1989)
Head of government: Prime Minister Kuniaki Koiso ( 1944-7. April 1945 )
Prime Minister Suzuki Kantaro ( 7 April-17 August 1945)
Prime Minister Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko ( 17 August to 9 October 1945)
Prime Minister Shidehara Kijuro (9 October 1945-1946 )

Manchukuo (disputed, occupied from August) Head of State: Emperor Pu Yi (1932 - August 1945 )
Head of government: Prime Minister Zhang Jinghui (1935 - August 1945 )

Nepal Head of state: King Tribhuvan (1911-1955)
Head of government: Shamsher Jang Bahadur Juddha Minister Rana ( 1932-29. November 1945 )
Padma Shamsher Jang Bahadur Minister Rana (November 29, 1945-1948 )

Siam (now Thailand) Head of state: King Ananda Mahidol (1935-1946)
Head of government: Major Kuang Abhayawongse ( 1944-31. August 1945 )
Prime Minister Tawee Boonyaket ( 31 August-17 September 1945)
Prime Minister Seni Pramoj ( 17 September-15 October 1945)

Southwest Asia

Iraq Head of state: King Faisal II (1939-1958)
Head of government: Prime Minister Hamdi al - Bajaji (1944-1946)

Iran Head of state: Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1941-1979)
Head of government: Prime Minister Morteza Bayat Gholi (1945 )
Prime Minister Ebrahim Hakimi (1945 )
Prime Minister Mohsen Sadr (1945 )
Prime Minister Ebrahim Hakimi (1945-1946)

Yemen Ruler: King Yahya bin Muhammad (1918-1948)

Transjordan (now Jordan) Ruler: Emir Abdallah ibn Husain I. (1921-1951)

Central Asia

Afghanistan Head of State: King Mohammed Zahir Shah (1933-1973)
Head of government: Prime Minister Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan (1929-1946)

Mongolia Head of state: Chairman of the Grand State Churals Gontschigiin Bumtsend (1940-1953)
Head of government: Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Chorloogiin Choibalsan (1939-1952)

Tibet ( disputed) Ruler: Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatsho (1935-1951)

Australasia

Australia Head of state: King George VI. (1936-1952)
Prince Heinrich Wilhelm (January 30, 1945-1947 )
Head of government: Prime Minister John Curtin ( 1941-5. July 1945 )
Prime Minister Ben Chifley (July 13, 1945-1949 )

New Zealand Head of state: King George VI. (1936-1952)
Governor General: Marshal Baron Cyril Newall (1941-1946)
Head of government: Prime Minister Peter Fraser (1940-1949)

Europe

Albania Head of government:?

Andorra Co - Prince: President of France: Charles de Gaulle (1944-1946)
Bishop of Urgell: Ramon Iglésias Navarri (1940-1969)

Belgium Head of state: King Leopold III. (1934-1951)
Regent: Prince Charles (1944-1950)
Head of government: Prime Minister Hubert Pierlot ( 1939-12 February. , 1945 )
Prime Minister Achille Van Acker (12 February 1945-1946 )

Bulgaria ( staffed ) Head of State: Tsar Simeon II (1943-1946)
Regent: Prince Kyril (1943-1946)
Head of government: Chairman of the Council of Ministers Kimon Georgiev (1944-1946)

Denmark ( open until May) Head of state: King Christian X (1912-1947)
State Minister Knud Kristensen (November 7, 1945-1947 )

German Empire ( occupied from May) Head of state: " Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor " Adolf Hitler ( 1933-30. April 1945 )
Reich President: Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz ( 1 May to 23 May 1945)
Head of government: " Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor " Adolf Hitler ( 1933-30. April 1945 )
Chancellor Joseph Goebbels ( 30 April-1 May 1945)
(provisional) Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk ( 2 May to 23 May 1945)
Military Governors: American Zone of Occupation: General Dwight D. Eisenhower (1945 ), General Joseph T. McNarney ( 1945-1947 )
British Occupation Zone: Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (June 5, 1945-1946 )
French Zone of Occupation: General Pierre Koenig (June 5, 1945-1949 )
Soviet zone of occupation: Marshal Georgy Zhukov (June 5, 1945-1946 )

Finland Head of state: President Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1944-1946)
Head of government: Minister of State Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1944-1946)

France Heads of State and Head of Government: (provisional) Charles de Gaulle ( 1944-1946 )

Greece Head of government: Prime Minister George Papandreou ( 1944-3. January 1945 )
Prime Minister Nikolaos Plastiras ( 3 January to 9 April 1945)
Prime Minister Petros Voulgaris ( 9 April to 17 October 1945)
Prime Minister Papandreou Archbishop Dama ( 17 October-1 November 1945)
Prime Minister Panagiotis Kanellopoulos ( 1 November to 22 November 1945)
Prime Minister Themistocles Sophoulis (November 22, 1945-1946 )

Ireland Head of state: King George VI. (1936-1949)
Head of government: Prime Minister Eamon de Valera (1932-1948)

Iceland Head of state: President Sveinn Björnsson (1944-1952)
Head of government: Prime Minister Ólafur Thors (1944-1947)

Italy Head of state: King Victor Emmanuel III. (1900-1946)
Head of government: President of the Council of Ministers Ivanoe Bonomi ( 1944-19. June 1945 )
President of the Council of Ministers Ferruccio Parri ( 19 June to 8 December 1945)
President of the Council of Ministers Alcide De Gasperi (December 8, 1945 to 1953 )
Republic of Salò Heads of State and Head of Government: Benito Mussolini ( 1943-25 April 1945. )

Croats Head of government: "leader" Ante Pavelić (1941 to May 1945)

Yugoslavia Head of state: (provisional) Ivan Ribar (2 December 1945-1953 )
Head of government: Prime Minister Josip Broz Tito (November 29, 1945-1953 )

Liechtenstein Head of State: Prince Franz Josef II (1938-1989)
Head of government: Prime Minister Josef Hoop ( 1928-3. September 1945 )
Prime Minister Alexander Frick (3 September 1945-1962 )

Luxembourg Head of State: Grand Duchess Charlotte (1919-1964)
Head of government: President Pierre Dupong government (1937-1953)

Monaco Prince Louis II (1922-1949) Head of government: Minister of State Pierre de Witasse (1944-1948)

Netherlands ( open until May) Head of state: Queen Wilhelmina (1890-1948)
Governor: Reich Commissioner Arthur Seyss- Inquart (1940 to May 1945)
Head of government: Prime Minister Willem Schermerhorn (June 24, 1945-1946 )

Norway ( open until May) Head of state: King Haakon VII (1906-1957)
Governor: Empire Josef Terboven (. 1940-8 May 1945 )
Head of government: Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen (June 25, 1945-1951 )

Austria (busy ) Head of State: President Karl Renner (December 20, 1945-1950 )
Head of government: Chancellor Karl Renner ( April-20. December 1945 )
Chancellor Leopold Figl (December 20, 1945-1953 )

Poland Head of government: Prime Minister Edward Osóbka - Morawski (1944-1947)

Portugal Head of state: President Óscar Carmona (1925-1951)
Head of government: Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar (1932-1968)

Romania Head of state: King Michael I (1940-1947)
Head of government: Prime Minister Nicolae Rădescu ( 1944-6. March 1945 )
Prime Minister Petru Groza (6 March 1945 to 1952 )

San Marino Captains Regent: Teodoro Lonfernini, Leonida Suzzi Valli ( 1944-1. April 1945 )
Alvaro Casali, Vittorio Valentini (1 April 1945-1. October 1945 )
Ferruccio Martelli, Secondo Fiorini (October 1, 1945-1946 )

Sweden Head of state: King Gustav V (1907-1950)
Head of government: Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson (1936-1946)

Switzerland President Eduard von Steiger (1945, 1951)
Federal Enrico Celio, Philipp Etter, Karl Kobelt, Marcel Pilet- Golaz, Ernst Nobs, Rodolphe Rubattel, Eduard von Steiger

Slovakia Head of state: Jozef Tiso ( 1939-4 April 1945. )
Head of government: Prime Minister Štefan Tiso ( 1944-4 April 1945. )

Soviet Union Head of state: Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (1922-1946)
Head of government: Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Joseph Stalin (1941-1953)

Spain Heads of State and Head of Government: General Francisco Franco (1939-1975)

Czechoslovakia Head of state: President Edvard Beneš (April 4, 1945 to 1948 )
Head of government: Prime Minister Zdenek Fierlinger (5 April 1945-1946 )

Turkey Head of state: President İsmet İnönü (1938-1950)
Head of government: Prime Minister Sukru Saracoglu (1942-1946)

Hungary Head of state: "leaders of the Hungarian nation " Ferenc Szálasi ( 1944-28 March 1945. )
Head of government: Prime Minister Ferenc Szálasi ( 1944-28. March 1945 )
Prime Minister Béla Miklós ( 28 March to 15 November 1945)
Prime Minister Zoltán Tildy (November 15, 1945-1946 )

Vatican City Head of state: Pope Pius XII. (1939-1958)

United Kingdom Head of state: King George VI. (1936-1952)
Head of government: Prime Minister Winston Churchill ( 1940-26. July 1945 )
Prime Minister Earl Clement Attlee (July 26, 1945-1951 )

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