WW2 Conferences

• The Tehran conference was in November 1943
• Tehran Conference: Britain and the USA to invade France to open a second front and take the pressure off the USSR. USSR to fight Japan after Germany were defeated.
• Tehran Conference: United Nations to be set up after the war.
• Tehran Conference: Areas of Eastern Poland to be given to USSR after the war.
• The Yalta Conference was in February 1945
• Yalta Conference: USSR to fight Japan after Germany surrendered.
• Yalta Conference: Germany to be divided into four zones: US, Britain, French and Soviet. Berlin (capital city) would be divided in the same way.
• Yalta Conference: Eastern Europe to be Soviet 'sphere of influence'.
• Yalta Conference: Countries freed from the Germans would have free elections.
• How much reparations Germany would pay in reparations was not agreed at The Yalta Conference.
• Polish/German borders and free elections in Poland were not agreed for at The Yalta Conference.
• The Potsdam Conference was in July 1945
• Potsdam Conference: USSR would take reparations from the Soviet zone of Germany.
• Potsdam Conference: Nazi war criminals would face trial.
• Potsdam Conference: Germany would eventually be reunited and would hold democratic elections.
• One change between Yalta and Potsdam was in April, Roosevelt died and was replaced by Truman who was an extreme anti-communist.
• Another change between Yalta and Potsdam was in July: The US secretly tested its first atomic bomb successfully.
• Another change between Yalta and Potsdam was the USSR freed countries in Eastern Europe from Germany but then kept their army in those countries.
• Another change between Yalta and Potsdam was Stalin set up a communist government in Poland, ignoring the agreement at Yalta.