17 juill. 1945 - Potsdam Conference
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Meeting of the Big Three but with new members.
-Great Britain prime minister Churchill was replaced by Clement Attlee
-President FDR was replaced by President Henry Truman
Many key decisions were decided such as:
-Set a zone of control
-Recognized communist government in Poland
-USSR could claim reparations from their zone of control
But Truman and FDR had many different ideas of how to treat the Soviets
-FDR wanted USSR help vs. Japan
-Truman didn't want USSR help
-Especially after the successful testing of
the atomic bomb
-Truman wanted to get rough on Soviets
Ajouté au bande de temps:
Cold War Events
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