Yalta, Potsdam and the atomic bomb

Yalta Conference - Feb 1945

• Create a soviet naval access path to the pacific so USSR can enter the war against Japan
• USSR granted island of South Sakhlin as reward for joining the war
• Stalin would support government of Jiang Jieshi
• Roosevelt and Stalin agree on a Soviet-US-British-Chinese trusteeship to steer Korea towards independance
• Co-alition to control Germany
• Free elections in Europe

Postdam Conference - July 1945

• Stalin reaffirms plans to enter war against Japan
• Truman reject's Stalins notion towards agreeing terms of trusteeship
• After Japanese surrender, China was to occupy northern French Indochina
• SEAC - British South East Asia Command - is to occupy southern Indochina

Differences:

• Leaders change; Atlee takes…