Cold War - Conferences
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- Cold War - Conferences
- Tehran (Iran) - November - 1943
- Who Attended
- Soviet Union - Stalin
- United Kingdom - Churchill
- USA - Roosevelt
- Results
- Russia was to declare war with Japan once Germany was defeated
- UK + USA agreed to open 2nd front in France (May '44)
- UN was to be set up
- TENSION DECREASED
- Causes
- WWII was coming to an end (Red Army pushed Germans back at Stalingrad, Italy had been invaded etc.)
- Roosevelt wanted to improve relations
- The powers needed to decide on war and post-war decisions
- Who Attended
- Yalta (Soviet Union) - February - 1945
- Who Attended
- Soviet Union - Stalin
- United Kingdom - Churchill
- USA - Roosevelt
- Causes
- Post war decisions needed making
- Close to defeating Germany
- Close to defeating Germany
- Future was still unclear
- Post war decisions needed making
- Post war decisions needed making
- Post war decisions needed making
- Results
- Germany would be split and shared upon defeat
- SU's relationship with everyone fractured - disagreed on Germany
- Nazis would be caught and tried
- TENSION INCREASED
- Who Attended
- Potsdam (Germany) - July - 1945
- Who Attended
- Soviet Union - Stalin
- United Kingdom - Atlee
- USA - Truman
- Causes
- Roosevelt had died and been replaced with Truman (more tension with SU)
- Stalin had ignored Yalta agreements (Troops in E. Europe, Army hadn't downsized etc.)
- Germany had surrendered
- Results
- Truman and Stalin's relationship deteriorated (Truman refused SU more Germany, SU refused free voting for E. Europe)
- TENSION INCREASED
- Germany + Berlin split between the Allies
- Germany: Demilitarized and had to pay reparations (not as much as SU wanted)
- Germany made a democracy
- Who Attended
- Tehran (Iran) - November - 1943
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