Conferences

Question 1

3 conferences and dates

Answer 1

Tehran Nov 43
Yalta Feb 45
Potsdam July-Aug 45

Question 2

Reason for Tehran

Answer 2

Met to plan winning strategy for war

Question 3

Agreements at Tehran

Answer 3

Second front
SU to declare war on Japan and to supply troops to help USA
Germany should be kept weak after war
Poland borders - SU gets to keep 1939 siezed land
Poland gets back land from Germany
General agreement for international body for negotiations- groundwork for UN

Question 4

Tensions at Tehran

Answer 4

Stalin pleased about second front thought they were delaying
Churchill annoyed about second front wanted to open in Balkans instead
Usa and britain - roosevelt saw Brtish colonialsim as bigger threat to world peace than SU

Question 5

Yalta situation

Answer 5

Second front opened in France, UK and USA pushing germans back to Berlin
Soviets had defeated eastern front and wanted to keep new territory as buffer against germany

Question 6

Yalta situation

Answer 6

Germany to be split into four zones after the war
20 billion in reparations half to SU
Nazi party banned
War criminals would be prosecuted
UN to be set up - soviet republics
Stalin agreed future govs in Europe to be decided with free elections
After 3 months of vidtory in eastern front agreed to join war against Japan

Question 7

Yalta tensions

Answer 7

Republics only Russia Belarus and Ukraine
Poland stumbling block-borders to go back to 1921 postion SU significant gains
Roosevelt and stakin oleased about agreemnet of free elections but issue of poland difficult

Question 8

Reason for Yalta

Answer 8

To discuss future of post-war Europe

Question 9

Why change at Potsdam

Answer 9

Roosevelt died
Atlee now
Truman delayed until atom bomb ready for baragaining power
Germany had surrendered in may 45

Question 10

Tensions at potsdam

Answer 10

Loss of common enemy

Atom bomb

Question 11

Agreements at Potsdam

Answer 11

Not much but some common ground
Germany to be divided into four zones and berlin well inside soviet comtrolled germany
Eadh country could take reperations from zone

Question 12

Twnsions at Potsdam

Answer 12

Su wanted germany to pay heavy reperations but Truman worried would not make economic recovery
Truman objected to control sU had over countipries it had liberated from Nazi rule but did little to aboid war
Truman didn’t like borders in poland and wanted to see gov with less communist influence

Question 13

Consequences of afghanistan

Answer 13

Olympic
Withdraw of salt 2 propsoal i cteased military spending
Detente over
Olympic boycotts