Yalta and Potsdam conferences
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- Yalta and Potsdam conferences
- Yalta
- Effects
- Agreed Germany would be divided into 4 zones. Berlin would also e divided into 4 zones (but it was in the soviet zone so caused tensions)
- Tensions: Window of capitalism within the soviet zone
- Stalin agreed to join Roosevelt in the war against Japan one Germany surrendered
- United superpowers and encouraged them to stay allies in the future after the war
- Did not agree about what to do with Poland
- Worsened tensions because the red army was already in control of Poland so it made it difficult for the other Superpowers to negotiate as Stalin had the upper hand
- Agreed Germany would be divided into 4 zones. Berlin would also e divided into 4 zones (but it was in the soviet zone so caused tensions)
- What happened
- What happened before this
- Invasion of France
- Know they are going to win the war
- Effects
- Potsdam
- Effects
- Division of Germany - Germany divided into 4 zones and so was Berlin, but Berlin was in the soviet zone and so this therefore caused tensions
- Demiliterise Germany, make Germany weaker so it was not a threat to the superpowers
- Germany to pay reparations to allies
- 25% to USSR
- Could not agree how/if they should economically cripple Germany. Disagreement caused tensions
- What happened
- Attle Truman and Stalin met at Potsdam in July 1945
- What happened before this
- Churchill not PM, Roosevelt dead
- Atomic bomb tested
- Soviet troops liberated countries in E Europe but did not remove military presence
- Stalin sets up communist government in Poland despite agreement at Yalta, protests from GB and US and wishes of Poles (claims defensive)
- Because agreements broken-causes tensions and distrust
- Effects
- Yalta
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