Tehran, Yalta & Postdam

What was the Grand Alliance?

Alliance formed by the USA, USSR, and UK to defeat the Nazis, led by Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill.

When was the Grand Alliance formed?

formed in 1941

When/what was the Tehran Conference?

Meeting of the Big Three in Nov 1943

What was the outcome of the Tehran conference?

• USA & UK agreed to open a 'second front' in Western Europe

• to establish an international body

• Germany would have to surrender unconditionally

When/what was the Yalta Conference?

Meeting in Feb 1945 where agreements were made

What was the outcome of the Yalta conference?

• Germany would be split into four zones

• Germany would pay $20 billion in reparations

• United Nations formed

• Poland’s borders would return to their position in 1921

• Disagreement about Poland and free elections (USA & USSR)

When did Germay surrneder?

May 1945

What/when was Potsdam Conference?

Conference in August 1945 with Truman, Attlee, and Stalin,

What were the agreements made at the Postdam Conference?

• Agreed to run Germany’s economy as a whole

• Berlin is also divided into 4 zones

• each country allowed to take reperations from its own zone

• USSR was allowed to take a quarter of the industrial equipment from other zones

What were the differences between the superpowers and attitudes of Stalin, Truman and Churchill? 

• Britain & USA were capitalist democracies but USSR was a communist dictatorship.  

• Churchill was from an aristocratic family and believed in the British Empire

• Stalin ruled USSR since 1920s and was convinced that the West wanted to destroy communism

• Truman was much more suspicious of the USSR than Roosevelt had been

Second Front

Agreement to launch an attack on Germany in Western Europe during WWII, known as D-Day.

United Nations

International body established to settle disputes through discussion, founded in 25 April 1945.

Reparations

Payments made by Germany after WWII, with agreements at Yalta for $20 billion, half to the USSR.

Red Army

Soviet army that 'liberated' Eastern Europe from the Nazis and remained in the region post-WWII.

Communist Government

Form of government desired by the USSR in Eastern Europe, leading to disagreements with the USA.

Capitalist Democracies

Political systems of the USA and Britain, contrasting with the communist dictatorship in the USSR.