3 conferences

• Tehran Conference November 1943

  • Soviet union was to wage war against Japan once Germany was defeated, military tactics
  • United Nations organisation set up after war
  • Area of eastern Poland to be added to USSR
  • Mainly a success for Stalin
• Consequences of Tehran Conference

  USSR gaining more power and influence, making decisions about war in general
• Tehran Conference


  November 1943
• Yalta Conference February 1945

  • Stalin wanting Germany to pay huge reparations
  • Stalin and Roosevelt having a strong relationship, Churchill mostly isolated
• Consequences of Yalta Conference

  • Germany being split into 4 zones
  • Berlin zones split in same way
  • join UN organisation after war to maintain peace
  • Eastern europe ‘soviet sphere of influence’
• why the Yalta conference didn’t work

  • stalin setting up a communist party in Poland ignoring wishes of the poles and the agreement at yalta
  • april 1945- roosevelt (USA) 💀, harry Truman replaced who distrusted Stalin
• Yalta Conference


  February 1945
• Potsdam Conference July 1945

  • 16th July 1945 - america testing the atomic , Stalin being furious as he wasn’t informed
  • churchill replaced by clement attlee
  • germany&berlin divided as previously agreed
  • Germany to be demilitarised, nazi Party being banned, Germany to pay reparations to allies
• consequences of Potsdam conference

  • arms race
  • tension between usa and ussr
  • berlins division, two superpowers clashing geographically
• Potsdam Conference


  July 1945