potsdam conference

• when did this happen?

  July 1945
• the acronym of CLASP can be used to remember the events of the Potsdam conference
• Change of personalties - FDR was replaced by Truman who wasn't willing to compromise and wanted to stop the spread of soviet influence
• Loss of a common enemy following germanys' surrender , meaning the allies didn't need each other as much
• Atomic bomb had been tested a day before the conference
• Stalin had broken his word over Poland and was setting up a government of communists there