Potsdam Conference

• Before the end of the war

  1945
• FDR was dead, and his replacement was Harry Truman
• Truman promised to be much harder on the Soviets
• Churchill was replaced by Attlee
• Truman was angry that Stalin had broken his agreement
• Stalin began to push Eastern countries including Poland, to communism
• Truman announced that the USA had the atomic bomb
• The relationship between the USA and USSR had completely broken down