Potsdam Confrence

• Potsdam Conference


  A conference held in July-August 1945 where the UK, the USA and the USSR met
• Yalta Conference


  A previous conference that was held
• The Big Three at Yalta


  • UK
  • USA
  • USSR
• Location of Potsdam Conference

  Potsdam, a palace outside Berlin
• What had changed since Yalta?


  Roosevelt was replaced by President Harry Truman, and Winston Churchill was replaced by Clement Attlee
• The Big Three at Potsdam


  • Truman (USA)
  • Attlee (UK)
  • Stalin (USSR)
• At Yalta the UK, the USA and the USSR had all got on fairly well


  At Potsdam things were different
• The allies fell out over Germany, Reparations and Eastern Europe at the Potsdam Conference