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| Question | Answer |
| How far apart were the conferences? | 5 months |
| Soviet troops liberated countries in eastern Europe but... | ... did not remove their military presence. |
| What happened by July? (L, L, E, F, C, H, B and R) | USSR had occupied Latvia. Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania. |
| What did Stalin set up in Poland and why? | A communist government, ignoring the wishes of the majority of the Poles and the agreements in the Yalta conference and protests from USA and Britain. He said that this control over eastern Europe was a defensive measure against future attacks. |
| Whose army was the biggest in the world? | The Red Army, Russia. |
| What did Stalin refuse to do? | Cut down his armed forces after the war, despite demilitarisation in the west, the Soviet Union continued to expand its armed forces. |
| When did Roosevelt die? | April 1945 |
| Who replaced Roosevelt and what position did he previously hold? | Harry Truman, his vice-president. |
| Was Truman similar to Roosevelt? | No, he was totally different and distrusted Stalin immensely. |
| What did Truman think? | Stalin intended to take over the whole of Europe. |
| When did America make a huge leap in armed warfare and what was this achievement? | 0n 16 July 1945 the Americans successfully tested the atomic bomb in a desert site in the USA, |
| When did Truman tell Stalin and how did he react? | At the Potsdam conference and Stalin was furious that he had not been consulted beforehand. |
| What happened half way through the conference? | Churchill was defeated in the British general election. |
| Who was Churchill replaced by? | Clement Atlee. |
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