reasons for cold war; conferences

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  • Conferences
    • Tehran Conference-November
      • By 1943 the war improved, big three started to look for peace
        • Red army had just began to push Germans back, forced out if Africa
          • Italy had been invaded
        • America had halted the Japanese in the pacific
      • Stalin  met with Churchill and Roosevelt for the first time
        • One aim; destruction of Germany and Japan
          • By 1943 the war improved, big three started to look for peace
            • Red army had just began to push Germans back, forced out if Africa
              • Italy had been invaded
            • America had halted the Japanese in the pacific
          • Stalin promised to enter war once Germany was defeated
            • Britain and America agreed to open front against Germans by invading northern france in 1944
      • After the war , Russia was promised to gain a bit of Poland, Poland would gain German territory
        • All agreed on the idea of a new world peace organisation to replace LEAGUE OF NATIONS
    • Yalta conference(February 1945)
      • Was held in Crimea
      • To try and plan out the future after end of war
        • Agreements
          • Establishment of a United Nations Organisation
          • the division of Germany into occupation  zones for each power
          • Berlin to be split into zones
          • similar arrangements for occupation of Austria
          • Free elections to be held in the states of the Eastern Europe
          • Stalin would join war against Japan 3 months later after Germany's defeat
          • Bessarabia and the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia would become part of USSR
      • Held by Stalin, Roosevelt and Stalin although Roosevelt died 2 months later
      • Signs of mutual suspicions
        • Stalin wanted Manchuria and the whole of Sakhalin ISland if he was to join the war
        • Russia had established communist government in Lublin.
          • It was agreed that memebrs of the non-communist London based government would join Lublin while Russia would keep ***** of east Poland.
            • Roosevelt and Churchill refused to agree Stalin's demands
    • Potsdam conference(July 1945)
      • Main representatives were Stalin, Truman and Churchill
      • Revealed a distinct cooling-off in the relations between East and West
      • No agreements on Germany long-term future
        • understood that; Germany should be disarmed, Nazi party disbanded and its leaders tried as 'war criminals'
        • A few clear agreements were reached
          • Germany was to be run by a Control Council
          • Germany to be given chance to rebuild democratic and peaceful basis, including installing fair elections
          • Nazi leaders to be put on trial
          • Each power could do what it wanted in their zones, Russia could take 25% of industrial equipment
      • Truman didn't inform Stalin about nature of atomic bomb, though he did tell Churchill
        • Two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan and war quickly ended on 10th august without the need of Russian aid
        • World had entered nuclear age, but in doing so further tensions and suspicions had developed between the East and the West

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