WW2 Conferences

Question 1

When was the Tehran Conference held?

Answer 1

November 1943

Question 2

When was the Yalta Conference held?

Answer 2

February 1945

Question 3

When was the Potsdam Conference held?

Answer 3

July 1945

Question 4

Which leaders were present in each of the 3 WW2 Conferences?

Answer 4

Tehran: Yalta: Potsdam:
- Churchill (Britain) Churchill (Britain) Atlee (Britain)
- Roosevelt (US) Roosevelt (US) Truman (US)
- Stalin (USSR) Stalin (USSR) Stalin (USSR)

Question 5

Background to Tehran Conference

Answer 5

Stalin was concerned that the USA and Britain were deliberately delaying the opening of the 2nd front.

Question 6

Background to Yalta Conference

Answer 6

By Febraury 1945, the German army had almost been defeated.

Question 7

Background to Potsdam Conference

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

What were some agreements made in the Tehran Conference?

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

In which conference was the opening of the second front discussed?

Answer 9

Tehran Conference

Question 10

In which conference were free elections in USSR discussed?

Answer 10

Yalta Conference

Question 11

In which conference was the division of Germany discussed?

Answer 11

Yalta Conference
(Germany would be divided into 4 parts, controlled by USA, Britain, USSR and France).

Question 12

In which conference was the idea to create the United Nations discussed?

Answer 12

Tehran Conference and Yalta Conference

Question 13

In which conference was the future of Germany discussed?

Answer 13

Potsdam Conference

Question 14

What were some agreements made in the Yalta Conference?

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

In which conference was the change of Polish borders discussed?

Answer 15

All three of them

Question 16

What were some agreements made in the Potsdam Conference?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What tensions did the Big Three have during the Tehran Conference?

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

What tensions did the Big Three have during the Yalta Conference?

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

What tensions did the Big Three have during the Potsdam Conference?

Answer 19

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.