POSTDAM CONFERENCE

what happened when the allies entered berlin? what they were going to do now?

allied troops reached Berlin hitler suicided; theyve won! they did the postdam conference

When was the Postdam conference?

July 1945

Which were the changes done after Yalta conference?

Stalin armies occupying most of Eastern Europe, america with a new president and the allies tested an atomic bomb

What did Stalin do with their army? Because of what? What did people fear?

they liberated many countries and left their troops there pero por feared of a communist take over

What did Stalin do with Poland?

set a communist government even they didn’t want to

What happened with Roosevelt? Who replaced him?

he died and Harry Truman was next

How was Truman like?

much more anti communist and suspicious of Stalin, he saw that maybe soviets wanted a soviet take over on the rest lf Europe. disagreed on reperations and delayed the conference

why did truman delay the conference? what did this mean?

until the atomic bomb was tested so it could intimidate stalin, and stalin began to create buffer zones in eastern europe (his expansion)

What happened with Churchill? Who came next?

defeated in elections, Attlee next

How was the conference dominated by?

rivalry and suspicious between Stalin and Truman

Which were the disagreeemtns at Postdam (basic except 1st)?

Germany(Stalin wanted to incapacitate Germany so there weren’t threats, but Truman didn’t want to repeat Versailles mistakes)

reparations amd

Eastern Europe

What happened with reparations?

Stalin wanted 10BILLION from Germany, but truman didn’t want to repeat ww1 mistakes and resisted that demand

What happened with Eastern Europe?

at Yalta Stalin won about having soviet governments across Eastern Europe. But Truman didn’t like that and changed his attitude

How did the Postdam conferenc end?

without complete agreement on any of the disagreements

WHY DID THE CHANGE FROM ROOSEVELT TO TRUMAN DRAMATICALLY ALTER THE ATMOSPHERE AT THE POTSDAM CONFERENCE?

TRUMAN ADOPTED A "GET TOUGH" ATTITUDE. THIS MEANT THAT THE DIPLOMACY OF YALTA WAS REPLACED BY RIVALRY AND SUSPICION, MAKING AGREEMENT ON GERMANY AND REPARATIONS IMPOSSIBLE

` WHY DID THE SUCCESSFUL TESTING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB INCREASE TENSIONS BETWEEN THE USA AND USSR BEFORE THE WAR EVEN ENDED?

TRUMAN USED THE BOMB AS A "POLITICAL CLUB" TO INTIMIDATE STALIN ]. THIS MEANT THAT INSTEAD OF SCARING STALIN INTO SUBMISSION, IT INCREASED SOVIET DISTRUST AND MADE STALIN MORE DETERMINED TO SECURE A "BUFFER ZONE" IN THE EAST