Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam Conferences

Question 1

What countries were in the grand alliance

Answer 1

USA, USSR and Britain

Question 2

When was the Tehran conference

Answer 2

1943

Question 3

What was agreed at the Tehran conference

Answer 3

-USA and Britain would open a second front and launch an attack on Germany from the West.
-Stalin would declare war on Japan

Question 4

What impact did the Tehran conference have on international relations

Answer 4

-Stalin was pleased with the USA and Britain who were opening a second front against Germany
-But Britain was annoyed, they wanted the second front in the Balkans
-Improved relations between the USA and USSR and developments of the two superpowers

Question 5

Which leaders met at the Yalta conference, February 1945

Answer 5

Roosevelt (USA), Churchill (GB) and Stalin (USSR)

Question 6

What was agreed at Yalta

Answer 6

-Germany and Berlin would be divided into zones of occupation under the control of the USA, USSR, GB and FR
-USSR would join the war against JAP
-United Nations to be set up after WWII
-Eastern European countries could hold free elections after the end of the war

Question 7

What did the allied leaders disagree on at Yalta

Answer 7

-Stalin wanted to move the border of Poland westwards into German territory
-Roosevelt was unhappy but agreed since Stalin promised not to help communist rebels in Greece.
-The British supported the London Poles.

Question 8

Which leaders met at the Potsdam conference, July 1945

Answer 8

Truman (USA), Attlee (GB) and Stalin (USSR)

Question 9

What was agreed at the Potsdam conference

Answer 9

-Germany would be divided as agreed at Yalta
-Poland’s eastern border moved west- this would give the USSR more territory
-Nazi leaders to be tried as war criminals

Question 10

What were the disagreements at Potsdam

Answer 10

-Truman wouldn’t punish Germany the way Stalin wanted
-Truman refused to let the USSR occupy Japan once it was defeated
-Truman and Atlee opposed Stalin’s demand that he establish pro-Soviet governments in Eastern Europe. Stalin’s Red Army looked like an army of occupation.

Question 11

Why was Potsdam less successful

Answer 11

-Stalin’s troops remained in Eastern Europe- hopes of free elections seemed very distant now
-Truman informed Stalin that the USA now possessed the atom bomb- Stalin feared that the USA might use this weapon in the future against the USSR
-Truman adopted a far more hard-line approach to Stalin that Roosevelt had
-GB and USA were far more suspicious of Stalin who had now set up a pro-communist government in Poland
-Stalin was suspicious as to why the USA wanted GMY to ‘recover’ economically

Question 12

When was the Potsdam conference?

Answer 12

June 1945

Question 13

When was the Yalta conference?

Answer 13

February 1945

Question 14

Where was the Potsdam conference held?

Answer 14

Just outside of Berlin

Question 15

Where was the Yalta conference held?

Answer 15

In the Crimea region of the USSR

Question 16

Who was at the Potsdam conference?

Answer 16

Attlee, Truman and Stalin

Question 17

Who was at the Yalta conference?

Answer 17

Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

Question 18

What was the main purpose of the Potsdam conference?

Answer 18

To finalise and put into action the post-war settlement agreed at Yalta.

Question 19

What was the main purpose of the Yalta conference?

Answer 19

To agree on a post-war settlement and decide what to do with Germany once it had been defeated.

Question 20

What were the disagreements about at the Potsdam conference?

Answer 20

-USA’s new president
-Nuclear threat
-Expansion of communism

Question 21

How did Truman becoming the president affect the Potsdam conference?

Answer 21

Truman replaced Roosevelt as president of the USA. He openly had different views on communism and Stalin. He ended the economic support that the Americans had been giving the Soviets. He became impatient with the Soviets after the news of the atomic bomb emerged.

Question 22

Why was a nuclear threat a disagreement at the Potsdam conference?

Answer 22

Just before the conference the USA successfully exploded an atomic bomb. Truman is said to have remarked, “if it works… I’ll sure have a hammer on those boys.”

Question 23

Why was there a disagreement about the expansion of communism at the Potsdam conference?

Answer 23

There was little evidence that Stalin was going to go through with his original agreement at Yalta that free elections would be held in Eastern Europe after the defeat of Nazi Germany.
The Red Army was in control of Poland, where the USSR was in the process of setting up a communist government.

Question 24

What was the outcome of the Potsdam conference?

Answer 24

Little real progress was made beyond agreement to put into action the commitments made at Yalta.

Question 25

Summaries the results of the Potsdam conference.

Answer 25

-There were arguments over where the boundaries between the zones would be drawn
-Stalin didn’t seem like he was going to allow free elections in Eastern Europe
-A communist government was being set up in Poland
-There were arguments about how much the USSR should be allowed to in reparations

Question 26

What were Churchill’s priorities for the Yalta conference?

Answer 26

-To maintain Britain’s global empire and prestige
-To withstand pressure from the USA and the USSR to end Britain’s colonial empire

Question 27

What were Roosevelt’s priorities for the Yalta conference?

Answer 27

-World peace- to help the USA rebuild its connections with the global economy
-World peace and global free trade to ensure that an event like the Great Depression wouldn’t happen again
-He believed that a UN organization would be an effective peacekeeping force

Question 28

What were Stalin’s priorities at the Yalta conference?

Answer 28

-Security against western imperialist aggression
-Russia had been invaded three times by the west between 1914-1941 and Stalin wanted a buffer zone of communist countries in Easter Europe to give Russia that security

Question 29

What was agreed upon at Yalta?

Answer 29

-Germany would be divided into four zones each controlled by one-off: USSR, Britain, France and USA
-The German capital, Berlin, would also be divided into those four zones
-All countries freed from Nazi control were guaranteed the right to hold free elections
-Stalin promised to join the war against Japan, once Germany was defeated
-The Allies agreed to the setting up of the United Nations, to ensure international cooperation and prevent future wars

Question 30

Who was at the Tehran conference?

Answer 30

Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

Question 31

When was the Tehran conference?

Answer 31

November 1943

Question 32

Where was the Tehran conference?

Answer 32

Tehran, Persia

Question 33

What was the main purpose of the Tehran conference?

Answer 33

To plan the liberation of Nazi-occupied France.

Question 34

Why was Stalin keen on the group’s invasion of Nazi-occupied France?

Answer 34

Because the Soviet Red Army was the only army fighting the Nazis on land.

Question 35

What were the outcomes of the Tehran conference?

Answer 35

-The USA and Britain would invade France by May 1944
-The USSR would join the USA and Britain in the war against Japan, once Nazi Germany was defeated