APUSH AMSCO Unit 7.14

explain the consequences of U.S. involvement in World War 2.

Harry S. Truman

FDR’s death causes his presidency

Big Three

U.S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Churchill, and Soviet Premier Stalin; they secretly coordinated military strategy and laid the foundation for peace terms and post-war policies

Casablanca

they agreed on a grand strategy to win the war (by invading Sicily); wanted unconditional surrender

“unconditional surrender”

surrender on Allied conditions

Tehran

agreed that the British and Americans would begin to liberate France in the spring of 1944 and that the Soviets would invade Germany

Yalta

Allies would divide Germany into occupations zones; liberated countries of Eastern Europe would hold free elections; Soviets would enter war with Japan; Soviets would control the southern half of Sakhalin island and Kuril islands with special concessions in Manchuria; conference in San Francisco to form a new world peace organization; determined the future map of Europe

free elections

self-determination

Potsdam

Stalin was the only returning leader; demanded Japanese unconditional surrender and that Germany would be divided into four zones