Yalta and Potsdam

Question	Answer
When was the Yalta conference?	February 1945
Who represented Britain, Russia and the USA?	Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt
What was agreed on?	Germany would be split into four zones of occupation Free elections in eastern European countries United Nations set up Germany forced to pay war reparations
What was Russia invited to do?	Join the united nations
What did Russia promise to do?	Join the war against Japan when Germany was defeated
What did they disagree on?	Stalin demanded to keep a strip of eastern Poland and no agreement was reached on this point No agreement on the amount of reparations to be paid
When was the Potsdam conference?	July 1945
Who was present? (Britain, USA, Russia)	Attlee, Truman and Stalin
What did they agree on?	Germany was to be disarmed The Nazi party was to be disbanded Most reparations would be paid by Germany to the USSR
What did they disagree on?	Truman was angry because Stalin had arrested the non-communist leaders of Poland Truman had not informed Stalin of the exact nature of the atomic bomb but he told Churchill

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