Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Conferences of the cold war FA
- Potsdam
- 1945
- Roosevelt out Truman in, Truman much more anti-communism, Churchill out halfway through Atlee in
- 2nd world war is over therefore they no longer have a common enemy
- Key issues
- Disagreements over what to do about
Germany
- Disagreements over reparation fees
- Disagreements over Soviet policy in Eastern Europe
- Stalin wanted to be much more harsh on Germans
- WW2 caused 20 million Soviet deaths
- Yalta
- February 1945
- Points of agreement
- Stalin would enter the war with Japan when Germany surrendered to help the US
- Germany and Berlin would be split into 4 zones
- To join the UN
- Eastern Europe would be a 'Soviet sphere of influence'
- Points of disagreement
- Stalin wanted the USSR border to move into Poland and for Poland's border to move into Germany, this was reluctantly agreed to by the allies.
- Key attendees were Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt