The Conferences

Question 1

What and when were the Three Conferences?

Answer 1

The Tehran Conference (1943)
The Yalta Conference (Feb, 1945)
The Potsdam Conference (July-August, 1945)

Question 2

Who attended the Tehran Conference?

Answer 2

Joseph Stalin (USSR)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA)
Winston Churchill (GB)

Question 3

What were the major successes of the Tehran Conference for America?

Answer 3

Stalin committed himself to attack Japan once Germany was defeated
Operation Overlord (D-Day) was agreed
Roosevelt’s proposed plan of the UN was supported

Question 4

Who attended the Yalta Conference?

Answer 4

Joseph Stalin (USSR)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA)
Winston Churchill (GB)

Question 5

What was agreed during the Yalta conference?

Answer 5

Germany to be split into four zones governed by the USSR, USA, Britain and France
Free elections allowed in Eastern Europe
Stalin invited to join the UN
Stalin once again agreeing to attack Japan

Question 6

Who attended the Potsdam Conference?

Answer 6

Joseph Stalin (USSR)
Harry S Truman (USA)
Winston Churchill/Clement Atlee (GB)

Question 7

What was agreed during the Potsdam Conference?

Answer 7

Confirmation of the previous four zones of Germany + Berlin
Punishing Nazi criminals
Free elections in Poland
The USSR gaining reparations from the Soviet ‘zone of occupation’ and 10% of Western industry’s equipment

Question 8

What had happened in America during the Potsdam conference? What implications did this have?

Answer 8

The atomic bomb was successfully tested in the New Mexico desert
Truman no longer needed Stalin’s help with Japan - and failed to alert him of the atomic bomb.