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The Potsdam Conference was the only time that Truman met Stalin in person. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] At the Yalta Conference, France was granted an occupation zone within Germany.
A product of the Potsdam Conference, it concerned the military occupation and reconstruction of Germany, its border, and the entire European Theatre of War territory. It also addressed Germany's demilitarisation, reparations, the prosecution of war criminals and the mass expulsion of ethnic Germans from various parts of Europe. France was not ...
Potsdam Conference: Churchill, Truman and Stalin in the Cecilienhof garden, 25 July 1945 The Potsdam Conference (officially the "Berlin Conference") took place from 17 July to 2 August 1945. It was the third and longest summit between the heads of government of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States, the major forces in the ...
Potsdam Conference (TERMINAL) Potsdam Allied-occupied Germany: July 17 – August 2, 1945 Stalin, Truman, Attlee, Churchill (in part, until election defeat of the Conservative Party) Potsdam Declaration demanding unconditional surrender of Japan, Potsdam Agreement on policy for Germany.
The Cecilienhof Palace was the scene of the Potsdam Conference from 17 July to 2 August 1945, at which the victorious Allied leaders Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin met to decide the future of Germany and postwar Europe in general. The conference ended with the Potsdam Agreement and the Potsdam Declaration.
In July 1945, delegations from the allied powers convened at Cecilienhof palace in Potsdam near Berlin in order to confer about the reorganisation of Occupied Germany.Due to incipient rifts between the Soviet Union and their anglophone allies, the United States and the United Kingdom, the conference failed to agree upon a comprehensive long-term strategy. [1]
At the start of the conference, the United States delegation considered a proclamation demanding Japan's unconditional surrender by the heads of governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and China. [3] The Potsdam Declaration went through many drafts until a version acceptable to all was found. [4]
Under Stalin's pressure, the Potsdam Conference, held from 17 July until 2 August 1945, placed all of the areas east of the Oder–Neisse line, whether recognised by the international community as part of Germany until 1939 or occupied by Germany during World War II, under the jurisdiction of other countries, pending a final Peace Conference.