The 3 conferences 1943 and 1945
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- The Teheran Conference 1943
- Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt.
- USA and Britain would open a second front to split the German defences and take some pressure off USSR.
- USA and Britain wanted to focus on a single front.
- USSR would declare war on Japan once Germany had been defeated.
- Poland should be given more land from Germany but lose some to USSR.
- Roosevelt often sided with Stalin and not churchill e.g. Churchill wanted to invade The Balkans to stop soviet advance in Eastern Europe; Stalin opposed to this and Rossevelt supported Stalin.
- The Yalta Conference 1945
- Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt.
- agreements from Teheran but with some changes.
- Germany would be reduced in size and have to pay reperations.
- The rebuilding of Europe would be done along the lines of the Atlantic Charter agreed between USA and Britain 1941.
- Nazi party would be banned and war criminals would be tried infront of a court.
- USSR would declare war on japan 3 months after the defeat of Germany.
- Poland should be in the soviet 'sphere of influence' but run on a broader democratic basis.
- Britain had entered the second world war to defend Poland
- America had entered to avoid the spreading of communism further west.
- Stalin wanted Poland as a buffer between USSR and the west.
- America had entered to avoid the spreading of communism further west.
- They had difference agreements on what democracy meant.
- Stalin thought a democratic government was a communist government as it only truly represented the working class people.
- Roosevelt believed a democracy government involved lots of political parties competing to win people's support in free elections.
- The Potsdam Conference 1945
- Churchill, Stalin and Truman
- Truman had no relationship with Stalin and personal trust and understanding built in the first conferences,was lost.
- Atlee replaced Churchill.
- Stalin grew suspicious of Truman because Stalin was not aware of America's testing of their new atomic bomb.
- Germany had been defeated and so the Big three were no longer united by a common enemy.
- They came to agreements around Germany.
- Ban the Nazi party and prosecute surviving criminals
- reduce the size of Germany.
- Divide Germany into four zones: USA, USSR, Britain and France, with the aim of reuniting it under one government.
- Divide Berlin into four zones and they can take the industrial equipment in that zone.
- USSR had a least developed zone and so got a quarter of the industrial equipment from the other 3 zones, but had to pay it back in raw materials e.g. coal.
- There were disagreements.
- Reperations
- USSR wanted to impose heavy reparations on Germany but America wanted Germany to be rebuilt.
- USSR's zone was alot poorer from the rest and so the wester n allies agreed to give a quatre of the industrial equipment from the wester zone in return for raw materials.
- Each ally would take reparations from the zone they occupied.
- Atomic bomb
- America had an atomic bomb that could destroy enemy cities with out harming a single American's life.
- Stalin had instructed Soviet scientists to develop their own atomic bomb. This wold create a buffer zone between USSR and the west.
- Poland
- Stalin had agreed to set up a communist and capitalist government but he had broken his word and just made it a communist government.
- Greece
- The german retreat left the monarchists and the communists fighting to rule Grece.
- British troops helped the monarchists under the claim of restoring free elections.
- a civil war broke out- Britain pulled out and USA stepped in.
- Reperations
- Churchill, Stalin and Truman
- The Teheran Conference 1943
- Churchill, Stalin and Truman
- Truman had no relationship with Stalin and personal trust and understanding built in the first conferences,was lost.
- Atlee replaced Churchill.
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