Yalta and Potsdam

Name the agreements made at Yalta, February 1945

1. Germany and Berlin divided into 4 zones: American, British, Soviet, French.

2. USSR would enter war against Japan.

3. Free Elections in countries freed from Nazi occupation (and in Stalin’s spheres of influence.)

4. Join the UN.

5. Nazi war criminals would be captured and put on trial/only unconditional surrender from Germany.

6. Reparations were of the use of a good/service equivalent to $20 billion.

Name 2 disagreements at the Yalta conference

1. Stalin wanted to dismember Germany and prevent it from developing its own industries. Roosevelt and Churchill disagreed, not wanting the rise of another extremist government (Hitler caused the war)

Name the 3 leaders at the Yalta conference

• Stalin

• Roosevelt

• Churchill

Name the 3 leaders at the Potsdam conference - July 1945

• Stalin

• Truman

• Atlee

(Truman and Stalin really didn’t get on)

Explain the tensions between Stalin, and Churchill & Atlee

• on the eve of the conference, Truman informed Stalin that America had successfully tested a nuclear bomb.

• Britain and America had kept the Manhattan project a secret from ‘their ally.’

• Stalin already away due to Soviet agents.

Potsdam: Stalin and Poland

• Stalin established a communist government in Poland, and no free elections were held (breaking the Yalta agreement.)

Agreements made a Potsdam

1. De-Nazification program begins in Germany.

2. Nazi war criminals put on trial at Nuremberg in 1946 4.

3. Free elections in Germany.

4. German army demilitarised

Tehran

November 1943

• USA and Britain would open a second front by invading Europe through Nazi-occupied France.

• USSR would invade Nazi Germany from the east.

• USSR would invade Japan once Nazi Germany was defeated.

• The Polish border would be moved to the west, so Poland would gain territory from Germany and lose it to the USSR from the east.

• UN to be established once the war was over.