3 conferences

• Conference


  A meeting of important people to discuss matters of great importance
• Tehran (November 1943)


  The Grand Alliance could meet and discuss plans to defeat Nazi Germany
• Yalta (February 1945)


  Nazi Germany was close to defeat. Met to discuss what to do after the war. Decision on German reparations was delayed to the next conference.
• Potsdam (July 1945)


  Churchill had been voted out and Clement Atlee was the new PM. Roosevelt had died and was replaced by Harry Truman. Truman distrusted Stalin.
• British and the Americans would invade France in May 1944


  This would force the Nazis to fight two forces at once
• Soviets would wage war on Japan once Germany was defeated


  This would help the Americans
• An area of Eastern Poland was given to the Soviet Union as Polish borders were moved to the Oder and Neisse rivers (moving the borders away from the Soviet Union)
• United Nations would be set up in order to resolve disputes that could prevent war
• The Soviet Union agreed finally to enter the war against Japan once Germany had been defeated
• Germany would be split into 4 zones split between the Soviets, French, British and Americans. Nazi officers were to be prosecuted in an international court of justice once the war was over.
• Eastern Europe was going to be a Soviet sphere of influence but had to have fair elections
• Some discussions of a organisation that would work towards peace-the UN
• Germany was to be demilitarised and democracy established alongside free press and speech, Germany would have to pay for reparations in equipment and material. Most would go to the Soviet Union
• The Nazi party banned and key figures were prosecuted in the Nuremberg Trials in 1946
• All the countries in the Grand Alliance would fully participate in the UN
• Poland's borders were moved to the rivers Oder and Neisse westwards given the Soviet Union more territory
• Truman adopted a 'Get Tough Policy' as the Soviets did not want free elections in Eastern Europe. Refused to remove troops and wanted to cripple Germany forever