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Yalta and Potsdam conferences - Coggle Diagram
Yalta and Potsdam conferences
Agreements about Eastern Europe-Yalta
USA/GB wanted free elections in Eastern Europe
USSR didn't
Agreed Poland could be in soviet sphere
Soviet sphere would be a continual problem during the cold war
Agreements on Nazi Germany-Potsdam
Nazi Party was banned
War criminals prosecuted in Nuremberg trials
leadership changes since Yalta
Franklin D. Roosevelt died in April 1945
replaced by Harry S. Truman
Truman less willing to compromise
Atlee replaced Churchill in July 1945 GE
New leaders first met at Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam
Agreements about Nazi Germany-Yalta
Reparations
USSR wanted $20 billion
USA agreed joint occupation of Germany as compromise
Germany demilitarised
Declaration of Liberated Europe
Aid to liberated peoples
Nazi war criminals punished
International Agreements-Yalta
UN founded in February 1945
The rebuilding of Europe-Potsdam
Berlin and Germany divided between the Grand Alliance
Soviets receive 1/4 of all other zones output to compensate lack of monetary reparations
Council of Foreign Ministers
First meet London in September 1945
Objective: accelerate the recovery of Europe
Objective: settle Axis borders
Eastern Europe-Potsdam
Truman wanted free elections in Eastern European
Stalin didn't
Stalin's installation of a pro-communist government in Poland a violation of the Yalta agreement
2 popular Polish Communists, Gomulka and Beirut, were backed by the Soviet Union.