The Grand Alliance and the Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam conferences

Which three countries were in the Grand Alliance against Nazi Germany during WWII?

American, Britain and the USSR

Who were the three leaders in the Grand Alliance, known as the ‘Big Three’?

Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin

When was the Tehran Conference?

November 1943

What was the aim of the Tehran Conference?

To plan a strategy to defeat Nazi Germany and win WW2

What was Stalin concerned about before the Tehran Conference?

That Britain and America were delaying opening a ‘second front’ in West Europe

Why was the Soviet Army suffering heavy losses?

4 million German soldiers had invaded in June 1941

What did USA and Britain agree to do in Western Europe during the Tehran Conference?

Lauch an attack to open a ‘second front’ which forced German soldiers to move West

What did Stalin agree to do once Nazi Germany was defeated at the Tehran Conference?

Supply soldiers to help the USA fight Japan

What was agreed about Germany after the war at the Tehran Conference?

It would remain weak after the war

What was agreed would be set up after the war at the Tehran Conference?

An international organisation to settle disputes without war

What agreement was made about and in Eastern Europe at the Tehran Conference?

Poland would receive land from Germany, and USSR would keep the land it seized from Poland

When was the Yalta Conference?

February 1945

What was the aim of the Yalta Conference?

To decide how Europe would be governed after the war

What was agreed about Germany at the Yalta Conference?

It would be divided into 4 zones

It would pay £20 in reparations

What did Stalin accept about the governments of countries in Eastern Europe at the Yalta Conferences?

They’d be decided by democratic elections

What was agreed about the war in Japan at the Yalta Conference?

Stalin would support the USA in fighting Japan three months after Germany’s defeat

How did the ‘Big Three’ disgaree about Poland at the Yalta Conference?

Stalin expected elections to result in a pro-communist government, however Churchill supported the non-communist London Poles

What disagreement arose about the UN at the Yalta Conference?

Not all 16 Soviet republics could join the UN

When was the Potsdam Conference?

July-August 1945

Who were the three leaders at the Potsdam Conference?

Truman, Attlee and Stalin

What was the situation in Europe by the Potsdam conference?

Germany had been defeated

Soviet soldeirs were occupying large areas of Eastern Europe (freed from Nazis)

What had the USA developed by the time of the Potsdam Conference?

An atomic bomb

What was Truman suspicious about Stalin?

His aims in Eastern Europe

What was agreed about Germany and Berlin at the Potsdam Conference?

Berlin would also be divided into 4 zones

How did the ‘Big Three’ disagree about Poland at the Potsdam Conference?

Truamn didn’t agree with the changes to Poland’s border

Why did the ‘Big Three’ disgaree about reparations at the Potsdam Conference?

Truman didn’t want to weaken Germany but Stalin wanted them to pay heavy reparations

What was agreed about reparations at the Potsdam Conference?

Each occupier would take reparations from its own zone

The USSR would take a quarter of the industrial equipment from the other zones