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The Grand Alliance

The members of Grand Alliance were USSR and USA

Its aim was to defeat the Nazis and was created in 1941

It was like a marriage between Capitalists and Communists and the only united in their opposition to Hitler

Hitler had been defeated and the alliance become uneasy

Between 1943 and 1945 the leaders had 3 international conferences called ''Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam'';

Each of the leaders wanted to know that countries fell out the ''sphere of influence'' and countries that did not

None of the documents which were properly laid out these spheres

It was clear that there was broad agreement over what these were, The USSR influenced Poland, Czechoslovakia, The Baltic states, Hungary and Romania. This would build a line of Buffer States between the USSR and the West

Stalin agreed this could be ''influence'' only with these states having free elections and a level of democracy (was built into the Yalta document)

The USSR also wanted to influence Yugoslavia which had its own Communist government and it was accepted a Communist country in Yalta

Britain and USA were keen to get the USSR to accept their influence in Western Europe, Greece and Italy

The Tehran Conference:

The Tehran Conference was the meeting of Stalin, Roosevelt

and Churchill between November 28 and December 1, 1943, most of which was held

at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran. It was the first World War II conference

amongst the Big Three (the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United

Kingdom) in which Stalin was present. It almost immediately followed the Cairo

Conference (November 22–26, 1943) and was followed by the Yalta Conference

(February 4–11, 1945) and the Potsdam Conference (July 17 - August 2, 1945).

The central aim of the Tehran conference was to plan the final plan for the war

against Nazi Germany and its allies, and the chief discussion was centered on

the opening of a second front in Western Europe.

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