Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Conferences of the Cold War
- Teheran : November 1943
- Meeting mainly a success for Stalin
- Because Roosevelt was unwell - sided
with Stalin rather than Churchill
- AGREEMENTS
- US/UK agree to
open a second front
- (by invading France)
- USSR agere to invade Japan
once Germany is defeated
- United Nations to be
set up to restore peace
- DISAGREEMENTS
- Stalin felt that US/UK wanted to
cripple soviet army in order to attack
- Because they had delayed
opening a second front
- Tension between UK/USSR
- Churchill hated communists
and the Bolshevik Revolution
- SITUATION
- Roosevelt keen to improve relations
- Big Three : Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill
- Yalta : February 1945
- SITUATION
- Big Three : Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill
- Germany close to defeat
- Met to discuss what to do with Europe
- AGREEMENTS
- Germany and Berlin to
be divided into 4 zones
- UK
- US
- USSR
- France
- Hunt down and trial
Nazi leaders/politicians
- USSR agere to
invade Japan once
Germany is defeated
- DISAGREEMENTS
- Amount of reparations for
Germany - Stalin wanted
to cripple their economy
- No decision made
- postponed to
next conference
- Stalin wanted
Polish/German
border further west
- BUFFER ZONE
- Stalin also wanted
Soviet-friendly
gov in Poland
- Potsdam : July 1945
- SITUATION
- New leaders
- Less familiarity between them
- Stalin, Atlee, Truman
- AGREEMENTS
- Germany and Berlin to
be divided into 4 zones
- (As previously discussed)
- Changes in
Germany
- To be demilitarised
- Introduction of
free elections to
create a democracy
- Reparations to be paid
out by Germany
- Mainly to the USSR due
to suffering most
- DISAGREEMENTS
- US lowered reparations from
original numbers set by Stalin
- Truman saw trading
potential in Germany
- Truman wanted free elections for Soviet countries
- Stalin refused -
this worsened
relations