Yalta and Potsdam

Date:

February 1945

Leaders Present:

Stalin(USSR); Roosevelt(USA); Churchill(UK)

Decisions:

Germany-To be defeated then disarmed; split into four zones of occupation; pay reparations

E.Europe-All countries allowed free elections to choose how they were to be governed.

Poland-Free elections; eastern frontier to be restored 

USSR-Join war against Japan 3 months after Germany were defeated 

• When?July 1945

• Who? Stalin;Truman;Churchill(17-25July); Atlee(25July-1August)

• Decisions:
• Nuremberg war crimes tribunal set up 
• Occupation zones finalised
• Reparations allowed in form of industrial plant
• Germans from 'Greater' Ge rmany repatriated 

Tensions:

• Western suspicions about Soviet influence in Eastern Europe
• More Germans than expected repatriated
• Possibility of the use of the atom bomb became closer to reality