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KEY TOPIC 1: The Origins of the Cold War
SECTION A- early tensions between East and West
The outcome of the Potsdam Conference
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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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