WW2 Conferences Flashcards
When was the Tehran Conference held?
November 1943
When was the Yalta Conference held?
February 1945
When was the Potsdam Conference held?
July 1945
Which leaders were present in each of the 3 WW2 Conferences?
Tehran: Yalta: Potsdam:
- Churchill (Britain) Churchill (Britain) Atlee (Britain)
- Roosevelt (US) Roosevelt (US) Truman (US)
- Stalin (USSR) Stalin (USSR) Stalin (USSR)
Background to Tehran Conference
Stalin was concerned that the USA and Britain were deliberately delaying the opening of the 2nd front.
Background to Yalta Conference
By Febraury 1945, the German army had almost been defeated.
Background to Potsdam Conference
Free elections weren’t introduced in Poland.
No democratic elections in USSR.
Atomic bomb secretly built by USA.
New Western leaders, more hostile and anti-communist.
What were some agreements made in the Tehran Conference?
A second front would be opened to ease pressures on USSR.
Stalin would help USA in war vs Japan.
Germany should remain week after the war.
An idea to eventually create the United Nations.
USSR would get part of Poland and Poland would get part of Germany.
In which conference was the opening of the second front discussed?
Tehran Conference
In which conference were free elections in USSR discussed?
Yalta Conference
In which conference was the division of Germany discussed?
Yalta Conference
(Germany would be divided into 4 parts, controlled by USA, Britain, USSR and France).
In which conference was the idea to create the United Nations discussed?
Tehran Conference and Yalta Conference
In which conference was the future of Germany discussed?
Potsdam Conference
What were some agreements made in the Yalta Conference?
Free elections to take place in USSR.
Polish borders were changed again.
The USSR would go to war with Japan after they defeated Germany.
Germany would be divided in 4 parts, controlled by the USA, USSR, Britain and France.
A United Nations would be set up.
Russia would receive 10 billion dollars for reparations.
The Declaration of Liberated Europe was created.
In which conference was the change of Polish borders discussed?
All three of them
What were some agreements made in the Potsdam Conference?
Germany would be de-militarized and de-nazified.
Each power would take reparations from Germany to compensate for losses.
Polish boundaries would be moved West
What tensions did the Big Three have during the Tehran Conference?
Roosevelt viewed British colonialism as a bigger threat than the Soviet Union.
Stalin was annoyed at the West because they weren’t helping and they were delaying the opening of a second front.
What tensions did the Big Three have during the Yalta Conference?
Red army occupied most Eastern Europe which worried the West.
Contrasting opinions between the USSR and the West on how elections should be held in Eastern Europe and on Germany’s future.
They didn’t agree in reparations.
What tensions did the Big Three have during the Potsdam Conference?
Declaration of Liberated Europe was not followed by USSR.
There were new stricter Western leaders who were harsher on Communism (Attlee and Truman).
The creation of the atomic bomb was kept secret by the USA.
