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| Question | Answer |
| Who was at the Potsdam Conference? | -Truman USA -Atlee UK -Stalin USSR |
| When was the Potsdam Conference? | July-August 1945 |
| What was agreed at the Potsdam Conference? | -To ban the Nazi Party. Its leaders tried as war criminals at Nuremberg 1946. They would re-establish democracy in Germany & allow freedom of speech & press. -The Oder-Neisse (2 rivers) line was to form part of the border between Poland & USSR |
| What was disagreed on at the Potsdam Conference? | -Britain & USA denied Stalin a naval base in the Mediterranean. -Stalin wanted HUGE compensation that would have crippled Germany. Truman refused. He saw a prosperous Germany as a way to prevent future soviet expansion. It was agreed Germany would pay reparations in equipment & materials. -Stalin had set up a communist government in Lublin (then the capital of Poland) which Truman & Atlee were suspicious of. |
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