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Conferences - Yalta and Potsdam
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Yalta conference - Feburary 1945
- Discussed plans for ending the war and peace settlement at the seaside resort of Yalta, in the Soviet Union
- Three leaders at Yalta: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin
- They agreed on:
- Liberating Europe from Nazis and setting up free democratic governments
- Germany was to be divided into zones. USSR would get half of the 20 billion dollar reparations
- Poland would gain part of Eastern Germany, and USSR would get Eastern Poland. Lublin government would accomodate London Poles
- Poland becamer controlled by USSR anyway (Lublin Poles)(Lodnon Poles in Minority)
- UN would be set up.
- Soviet forces would help against Japan
- Leaders of the three countried had conflicting aims
- US-Democracy
- Churchill - Poland non-commuist, democracy
- Stalin - spread communism
- Yalta was a dissapointment for USA. They felt that Stalin would not allow the spread of western style governments in Easter Europe.
Potsdam - July 1945
- To discuss Japan and future of Germany
- Germany into 4 zones
- Germany to be disarmed
- Nazi war criminals to be tried - stamp out Nazism.
- Did agree on frontier between Poland and Germany
However
- Did not draw up a peace treaty with Germany
- Did nto reconfirm the promise of democratic elections in Europe
Result
Worsened Relations between USSR and US
- US rejected the idea of USSR runnig part of the rich Ruhr area
- US blocked the idea of the USSR sharing occupation of Japan
- UK and US wanted more to say about Eastern Europe - Staling rejected
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