Potsdam and Yalta

Question 1

Explain the main differences in Yalta and Potsdam

Answer 1

• ->Stalin’s Occupation
• ->America’s new prez
• ->Allies’ posses A-BOMB
• ->War had ended

Question 2

What was the effect of the occupation on Potsdam?

Answer 2

• ->Truman’s insistence on Free elections
• ->Tougher on SU
• ->needed to prove himself(April 1945)

Question 3

What was the effect of America’s change of president?

Answer 3

• ->more anti-communist

- ->raised tensions

Question 4

What was the effect of the A-BOMB?

Answer 4

• -> set tone

- ->no one able to appreciate other’s pov