Potsdam Conference July 1945

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  • Potsdam Conference
    July 1945
  • The grand alliance met one last time, but the atmosphere had changed
  • Stalin's army had liberated Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania
  • Stalin had set up a communist government in Poland
  • The Red Army remained intact and powerful, unlike the demilitarisation in the west
  • The USA had successfully tested the Atomic Bomb without sharing secrets with the USSR
  • There was a change in leadership - no longer Roosevelt and Churchill but Truman and Atlee
  • They agreed on the division of Germany as at Yalta
  • They agreed that democracy would be re-established in Germany
  • Germany would pay reparations, most of which would go to the USSR to repair their nation
  • The Nazi Party was banned
  • The UN was established
  • Poland's frontier moved westwards to the rivers of Oder and Niesse
  • There was no agreement on Germany in the long term - Stalin wanted them crippled with reparation so never strong enough to attack again, but Truman refused
  • The interpretation of "free elections" differed between the USA and USSR