wartime conferences

Question 1

yalta date

Answer 1

February 1945

Question 2

yalta planned to discuss…

Answer 2

winning the war + post war Europe
If Stalin could keep the territory he’d won as a cushion for future invasions

Question 3

yalta Agreements made

Answer 3

germany would be split into zones controlled by each power
UN would be set up
Nazis banned + war criminals prosecuted
Future Eastern European countries would have free elections

Question 4

yalta Disagreements

Answer 4

British wanted the London Poles to govern poland
borders of poland and where they would be
Stalin wanted the free elections to support a pro communist government

Question 5

tehran date

Answer 5

november 1943

Question 6

T plans

Answer 6

way to defeat germany + japan in ww2 and end of war
what would happen to germany and countries east of it

Question 7

agreements T

Answer 7

USA + britain launch attack on west germany opening second front
stalin declar war on japan and supply soviet troops to help the usa fight it
international body would be set up for negotiations

Question 8

T disagreements

Answer 8

soviets thought USA/Uk delayed opening second front to make soviets more weak
churchill wanted to open front in balkans not west (outvoted)

Question 9

Potsdam date/place

Answer 9

July 1945 just outside berlin

Question 10

tensions at P

Answer 10

new US president ( roosevelt died and replaced by Truman)
USA exploded an atomic bomb on test site before conference ( nuclear threat)
little evidence that stalin intended to allow free elections in germany

Question 11

disagreements P

Answer 11

where boundaries between zones would be drawn
how much USSR should take in reparations

Question 12

agreements P

Answer 12

germany divided into four zones
german economy would be run as a whole
Berlin divided into four zones run by four countries ( inside soviet area)