The Potsdam Conference
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- The Potsdam Conference
- Who, when
- July-August 1945
- The Big Three: Truman, Stalin and Churchill (who was replaced by Clement Atlee half way through the conference)
- Changes that had occurred since Yalta
- Stalin's armies where now occupying most of Europe and had begun to set up forced Communist governments
- Roosevelt had died on 12th April 1945 and had been replaced by Harry Truman, who was extremely anti-communist
- America had successfully tested an atomic bomb, straining their relationship with the USSR
- Agreements
- None.
- Disagreements
- Stalin wanted to cripple Germany in the hopes of eliminating any future threats, but Truman believed that would be repeating the mistakes of the Treaty of Versailles
- As compensation for the 20 million Russians who had died in WW2, Stalin wanted reparations, but Truman thought this would lead to another take over like Hitler's
- Attitudes during Potsdam
- Truman was very tough towards Stalin as he was unhappy about the Communist states that had been set up all over Europe.
- Most of the arguing was dominated by Truman and Stalin
- As a new prime minister, Atlee wasn't very influential in this conference.
- Who, when
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