Post War Conferences

• Yalta happened in Ukraine

  February 1945
• What they met to discuss at Yalta

  What to do with Germany and Europe once victory was achieved
• What they agreed on at Yalta

  • Divide Germany and Berlin into 4 zones
  • Germany pay Soviet for lost life and property
  • Stalin agreed to join the war against Japan
  • Stalin agreed Eastern Europeans would have free elections and Eastern Europe would be a soviet sphere of influence
  • Hunt and try Nazi war criminals in an international court of law
• Potsdam happened in Germany


  July 1945
• Changes occurred between Yalta and Potsdam


  • Soviet troops liberated countries but didn't leave
  • Communist government in Poland
  • Atlee replaced Churchill
  • Attitudes towards the USSR hardened
• What they agreed on at Potsdam

  • How Germany would be divided and reparations would be distributed
  • The USSR could take some reparations from UK and US zones in return for supplying food and fuel
  • How would Austria be divided
  • Changes to Germany's border with Poland- former German territory became Polish