The Grand Allience

Question 1

What is the order of the three conferences ?

Answer 1

Tehran, Yalta and Postsdam
T.Y.P

Question 2

Who where the big three ?

Answer 2

Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill

Question 3

Why was there slight disagreements between Churchill and Stalin

Answer 3

• Churchill had supported Bolshevik enemies and was suspicious of Stalin
• Britain wanted Poland to be independent however Stalin wanted soviet control in order to prevent any further attacks

Question 4

When was the Tehran conference ? And who attended it

Answer 4

November 1943
- Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt

Question 5

What where the main agreements made at Tehran and when was it ? F.A.U.P

Answer 5

November 1943
- Britain and USA open up second front by invading France May 1944
- soviet attack Japan once Germany was defeated
- United Nations to be organized post war
- part of eastern Poland was to be added to the Soviet Union

Question 6

When was the Yalta conference? Who attended it ?

Answer 6

February 1945
- the big three: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

Question 7

What where the main talks at Yalta ?

Answer 7

• Background info: allied armies closing in on Berlin
  Main talks
  1. What to do with Germany
  2. Stalin wanted Germany to pay huge reperations

Question 8

When was the Yalta conference and what where the outcomes ? S.G.B.H.F.E

Answer 8

February 1945
1. - Soviet Union to join fight against Japan once Germany surrendered
2. - Germany divided into 4 zones of US, French, British and soviet
3. - Divide Berlin in the same way
4. - hunt war criminals and trial them
5. Freed countries allowed to choose a government
6. - Eastern Europe becomes the soviet ‘ sphere of influence’

Question 9

What was the big clash at Yalta ? When was the Yalta conference ?

Answer 9

1945 February
- couldn’t agree of reparation amounts for Germany
- Stalin wanted more of Poland

Question 10

When was the Potsdam conference and who attended it ?

Answer 10

1945 July
- Attlee, Truman and Stalin

Question 11

What where the big changes that affected relations between Yalta and Potsdam ?

Answer 11

• soviet troops liberated eastern counties but didn’t remove occupational forces
• Stalin set up communist government in Poland ignoring the agreement made at Yalta
• in April 1945 Roosevelt died, Truman replaced him
• Churchill replaced by Clement Attlee

Question 12

When was the Potsdam conference and what where the agreements made ? G.G.D.R.N.U.P

Answer 12

1945 July- 3rd conference
1.- Germany and Berlin divided into four zones (soviet zone in the east, other zones in the west)
2.- Germany is demilitarized
3.- democracy reestablished in Germany (free elections, speech and press)
4.- Germany to pay reparations majority going to the Soviet Union ( quarter of industrial goods)
5.- Nazi party banned and put on trial at Nuremberg
6.- UN organized
7.- Poland frontier moved westwards

Question 13

When was the Potsdam conference and what where the disagreements ?

Answer 13

1945- July
- leaders couldn’t reach agreements over what to do with Germany as Truman saw it as a frontier against soviet expansion yet Stalin was angry about the soviet loss of life caused by German aggression
- Truman wanted free elections for soviet occupied countries however Stalin refused which angered Truman