Conferences

• Tehran Conference

  • Nov-Dec 1943
  • Allies to open second front against Germany
  • prevent Germany from starting another war
  • land is given to the USSR which annoyed the others and started arguments
  • UK (Churchill), USSR (Stalin), USA (FDR)
• Yalta Conference


  • Feb 1945
  • split Germany into 4 zones between UK, USSR, USA & France
  • a peace keeping organisation to be set up
  • Germany to pay $20 million in reparations to Allies
• Potsdam Conference

  • Jul-Aug 1945
  • Stalin annoys Truman (very anti-communist) by not holding free elections in Poland when he said would
  • Berlin is split into 4
  • UN set up
  • USA drop atomic bomb in Japan when USSR were meant to do it which annoyed Stalin