The differences between Yalta and
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Yalta
Held in the Crimea (Russia).
Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin.
February 1945 - Germany not
yet defeated.
Potsdam
Held in Germany.
Attlee, Truman, Stalin.
July 1945 - Germany had
surrendered but Japan was not
yet defeated.
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Eastern Europe
Yalta
'Declaration of Liberated
Europe' (to set up democracies
in East Europe).
Set up Polish Government of
National Unity (Stalin arrested
the non-communists).
Potsdam
Britain and USA were worried
about Soviet power but still...
Recognised the Polish govt.
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Yalta Reparations
Agreed in principle to divide
Yalta
Germany into four zones to be
Set up a commission to look into
occupied Britain, France, the
reparations
USA and the USSR.
Potsdam
Potsdam
Russia was allowed to take
Set up the four zones of
reparations from the Soviet
occupation but there was
Zone, plus 10of the industrial
open disagreement about the
equipment of the western zones.
boundaries.
America and Britain thought this
was too much.
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International Relations
Relations Yalta
Russia was invited to join the
Yalta
United Nations.
Agreements on principles
Potsdam
Some tension - Churchill wrote
America was horrified that
to Roosevelt that Russia was a
Russia might join the war
danger to the free world.
against Japan.
Potsdam
Truman did not tell Stalin that he
Open disagreement about
had the atomic bomb.
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Truman was 'tired of babying the
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