Potsdam conf.

big 3 met

took place Potsdam 17 July - 2 Aug 1945

Roosevelt died &
replaced by Harry Truman

Churchill lost election and replaced by Clement Attlee

German & Austrian Borders

4 military zones agreed

Oder-Neisse Line between Poland & Germany

treatment Nazis

part dissolved

war crimes tribunal Neremberg

freedom Germany

free elections

free press

reperation

Germany would pay Allies in particular USSR

Germans kicked out Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania * forced to live in Germany

Once Germany defeater USA & USSR tension

tension over Poland & elections USSR

Truman told Stalin they have exploded atomic bomb

Stalin order building atomic bomb

Truman could not deal with USSR and was blunt to Molotov Soviet Foreign minister