The main concerns arising from the Potsdam Conference
- Created by: Katie Beaumont
- Created on: 21-03-17 18:19
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- Main concerns in Potsdam Conference
- Differed interpretations of democracy between the East and West
- Western powers anxious to avoid a strong centralised German govt
- Western powers also wanted to limit the spread of Communism, by establishing Western style democracy
- Stalin was determined to install Communist control in the Soviet zone.
- He believed this would be a catalyst for the eventual Communist domination of post-war Germany
- Differed interpretations of democracy between the East and West
- Western powers anxious to avoid a strong centralised German govt
- Western powers also wanted to limit the spread of Communism, by establishing Western style democracy
- The SU had already begun to establish a Communist-dominated administration in Berlin
- The issues of Poland's borders and the reparations to be taken from Germany were the areas of greatest disagreement
- Differed interpretations of democracy between the East and West
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