Yalta and Potsdam
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- Yalta and Potsdam
- Yalta happened in February 1945
- CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT, STALIN
- Agreed to divide Germany into 4 zones; Britain, France, Russia and USA
- Berlin would further be split up into 4 zones
- Free elections is Eastern European countries
- the USSR would join war against Japan
- Potsdam occurred in August 1945
- Roosevelt died so USA was represented by Truman
- Churchill was replaced by Atlee
- The new leader didn't get on with Stalin that well
- ATLEE, TRUMAN AND STALIN
- Agreements: Nazis would be banned and would be tried as war crimminals.
- The Oder-Neisse line was to form a border between Poland and Germany.
- Attlee didn't want Stalin to have bases in the Mediterranean as there was no need.
- Stalin saw this as mistrust from the leaders
- Stalin wanted more reparations from Germany but the US and Germany did not.
- US and Britain didnt want to cripple Germany; this made Stalin suspicious as to why they were protecting Germany.
- Stalin set up a Communist government is Lublin, Poland and this made the other suspicious of his motives
- Yalta happened in February 1945
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