Conferences

Question 1

Tehran date

Answer 1

1943

Question 2

Agreements of Tehran

Answer 2

• Britain and France to open up a ‘second front’ by invading in May 1944
• the USSR to help to defeat Japan once Germany was defeated
• part of Eastern Poland to become part of the USSR
• set up the United Nations Organisation after the war

Question 3

Tehran disagreements

Answer 3

• Stalin was annoyed that Britain and the USA were being slow to open a ‘second front’
• Stalin wanted control of Poland to protect the USSR from future invasions. Churchill was suspicious that Stalin wanted control over Poland

Question 4

Yalta date

Answer 4

February 1945

Question 5

Yalta agreements

Answer 5

• hunt down and try Nazi war criminals
• divide Germany, and Berlin, into zones, occupied by each allied power
• take reparations from their zones
• USSR to help to defeat Japan
• countries in Eastern Europe to be independent
• Soviet sphere of influence
• Set up the United Nations Organisation to promote world peace

Question 6

Yalta disagreements

Answer 6

• reparations
• Stalin wanted more land from Poland to be given to the USSR but Churchill and Roosevelt were Afros that this meant Stalin wanted to control Poland

Question 7

Potsdam date

Answer 7

July 1945

Question 8

Potsdam agreements

Answer 8

• ban the nazi party
• divide Germany and Berlin into 4 zones
• Germany to pay reparations
• establish democracy in Germany
• to participate in the United Nations Organisation

Question 9

Potsdam disagreements

Answer 9

• Stalin wanted a massive compensation which would have cripple Germany whereas Truman wanted Germany to recover as a protection against communism
• Stalin had to set up a Communist government in Poland breaking the agreement at the Yalta to hold free elections
• Truman wanted free democratic elections to be held in all countries in Eastern Europe Stalin thought Truman was interfering too much