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    • By Potsdam, the ‘big three’ were now Truman, Attlee and Stalin
    • Germany had surrendered in May 1945
    • The USA tested the atomic bomb the day before the conference began
    • It was agreed that the German economy would be run as a whole (didn’t happen with each zone developing their own currencies )
    • Berlin would be divided into four zones
    • Each country was allowed to take reparations from their own zone (only the USSR actually took reparations)
    • The USSR was allowed to take a quarter of the industrial equipment from other zones
    • Truman objectified to the Red Army occupying Eastern Europe
    • Truman objected to the new Poland borders which had already been agreed at Yalta
    • By Potsdam, the Red Army had ‘liberated’ many Eastern European countries from the Nazis, but had not yet left
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