History, Causes of the Cold War

Yalta

• When? - February 1945.
• The big three were Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill.
• The big three, agreed to split Germany into four zones of occupation.
• They also agreed to allow free elections in Eastern European countries.
• Russia was invited to join the united nations.
• Russia promised to join the war against Japan when Germany was defeated.

Potsdam

• When? - July 1945.
• Germany had been defeated.
• Roosevelt had died.
• Churchill had lost the 1945 election, so there were open disagreements.
• Truman was angry about the size of reparations, and that there was a communist government being set up in Poland.
• Truman did not tell Stalin that he had the atomic bomb.