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Potsdam Conference
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- 1Who was at the Potsdam Conference?-Truman USA
-Atlee UK
-Stalin USSR - 2When was the Potsdam Conference?July-August 1945
- 3What was agreed at the Potsdam Conference?-To ban the Nazi Party. Its leaders tried as war criminals at Nuremberg 1946. They would re-establish democracy in Germany & allow freedom of speech & press.
-The Oder-Neisse (2 rivers) line was to form part of the border between Poland & USSR - 4What was disagreed on at the Potsdam Conference?-Britain & USA denied Stalin a naval base in the Mediterranean.
-Stalin wanted HUGE compensation that would have crippled Germany. Truman refused. He saw a prosperous Germany as a way to prevent future soviet expansion. It was agreed Germany would pay reparations in equipment & materials.
-Stalin had set up a communist government in Lublin (then the capital of Poland) which Truman & Atlee were suspicious of.
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- GCSE History (Chapter 4: The Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1960) FlashCards sobre Potsdam Conference, criado por Amy Crossland em 30-11-2016.
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