Yalta Conference
Who: Allied leader, the Bid Three (Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill)
When: February 1945
What: They met at Yalta to plan what would happen to Europe after Germany’s defeat
- Stalin agreed to enter war with Japan after Germany lost.
- The USSR’s border moved further into Poland.
- Germany would be divided into four zones: American, French, British and Soviet.
- The Big Three: Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to hunt down all war criminals and join the new United Nations Organization to keep peace after war (some kind of new League of Nation).
Significance: This conference was extremely significant because it was the first conference in which the leaders started to decide what would happen to Germany. The decision to divide Germany between the Soviet and the Americans will have a big impact on the future.
Potsdam Conference
Who: the new Allied leaders, Stalin, new President Truman and Clement Atlee replaced Churchill
When: May 1945
What: The war had just ended and Germnay had lost but many changes had occurred as the leaders of two of the Allies countries had changed. This conference had a lot of disagreements
- Stalin wanted to cripple Germany completely but Truman didn’t want to repeat the T of V error.
- Stalin wanted huge reparations from Germany but once again …show more content…
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