Conferences

The 3 Conferences

• Tehran
• Yalta
• Potsdam

The Tehran Conference

• The Tehran conference was the first out of the 3.
• Taking place from the 28th of November -1st December 1943.
• The three presidents that attended the conference were; Churchill (UK), Stalin (USSR) and Roosevelt (USA)
• The 3 countries had one common enemy GERMANY.
• Stalin was annoyed with Britain and USA because they has delayed opening a second front in the war.
• They also argeed:
• 1. USA and Britian would open a second front so it would take pressure off the USSR.
• 2. After the Germans had been defeated USSR would declear war on japan.
• 3. Poland would be given some of Germanys land however lose some from the USSR.

The Yalta Conference.

• Took place from the 4th to the 11th February 1945.
• The 3 presidents that attended where; Churchill (UK), Stalin (USSR) and Roosevelt (USA).
• Relations had worsened by the Yalta conference due to the fact that Britain and USA had been reluctant to open a second front.
• Britain had entered the second world war.
• The decisions that where made where:
• 1. Once Germany had been defeated it would be reduced in size and made to pay reparations in goods, materials and manual labor.
• 2. Plans had begun how Germany would be split after the war.
• 3. Nazi party would be treated as war criminals and put in front of the high court.
• 4. USSR would declare war on japan.
• 5. Poland should be under soviet sphere of influence.

The Potsdam Conference

• Potsdam was the last conference of them all.
• July til August 1945.
• The 3 presidents that attended the meeting were; Churchill/ Attlee (UK), Stalin (USSR) and Truman(USA).