The Potsdam Conference July 1947
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- The Potsdam Conference July 1947
- Disagreements
- Germany: Stalin wanted to disable Germany completely to remove any prospect of invasion.
- Truman did not want Germany to be punished in the way that happened at Versailles in 1919.
- Truman wanted free elections in the countries of eastern Europe.
- Stalin refused. Believing it was unwelcome interference.
- Truman was not pleased and adopted a tougher foreign policy towards the USSR.
- Stalin refused. Believing it was unwelcome interference.
- Germany: Stalin wanted to disable Germany completely to remove any prospect of invasion.
- Agreements
- Divide Germany + Berlin into 4 zones to be occupied and administered by one of the allies.
- Demilitarize Germany.
- re-establish democracy in Germany, free elections, press and speech
- Germany to pay reparations in equipment and materials.
- Majority to the USSR, which had suffered the most war damage.
- USSR to have 1/4 of industrial goods from the Western zones for food and coal from the Soviet zone.
- Ban the Nazi party. Nazis on trial for war crimes in Nuremberg 1946.
- Participate fully in the UN
- Poland's frontier moved to the rivers Oder and Neisse
- Disagreements
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