Potsdam

Potsdam

Agreements
1. Temporarily partition Vietnam
2. Divide Germany and Austria into 4 occupation zones as well as the Capital of each
  1. Agreed in principle at Yalta
3. Agreement on persecution of Nazi war criminals
4. Soviet controlled govt in Poland officially recognised
Atomic Bomb
1. Dropped after an ultimatum was issued to Japan who didn't respond (didn't mention the bomb)
2. Stalin was not informed of the existence of the bomb
3. Bombs dropped on 6th and 9th, officially to prevent the war being prolonged and save American lives
4. Russia was due to invade China on August 15th to remove Japanese occupation, this would have made them eligible for reparations or concessions
  1. Timing suggests Truman wanted to prevent this
Leaders
1. Stalin
  1. Unlike Stalin and Truman, Atlee and Truman didn't have a good working relationship with Stalin
2. Truman
  1. Aggressively anti-communist, took a hard-line approach, made it hard to work with Stalin
  2. Replaced Churchill partway through the conference after labour defeated conservatives in the general elections
3. Attlee
  1. Not as interested in foreign affairs
Between Yalta and Potsdam
1. Attlee and Truman replaced Churchill and Roosevelt
2. End of the war: no longer allies
3. Soviets were occupying Eastern Europe and had set up govts
  1. West refused to recognise the govts as they were unelected
4. USSR had begun to take reparations directly from Easter Europe
  1. West concerned this would stifle economic growth
Goals
1. How to punish Nazi Germany
2. Establish post-war order
3. Issues surrounding peace treaties
4. Counter effects of the war

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