Potsdam

• When was Potsdam ?

  17th July to the 1st of August 1945
• Who was present at Potsdam ?

  Atlee , Truman and Stalin
• What was the main objective of Potsdam ?

  To finalize a post war settlement put into action all things agreed at Yalta.
• What did the allies agree ?

  Claim reparations for war losses
• What news was broke to Stalin ?

  The USA had developed an atomic bomb and were going to drop it on Japan to try make them surrender.
• When did the US drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?

  6th August 1945
• What were the outcomes ?

  Devastated an area of five square miles. 140,000 people died.
• When did the US drop the bomb on Nagasaki ?


  August 9, 1945
• How many were killed in Nagasaki ?

  74,000
• Why were the bombs dropped ?

  To make Japan surrender which they did on the 14th August. Stalin saw at as more directed to the USSR rather than Japan . Stalin gave order to soviet scientists to start to develop their own nuclear weapon which started the arms race.