WW2 Conferences

Question 1

Month and year of Teheran

Answer 1

November-December 1943

Question 2

Who was at the Teheran conference

Answer 2

USA (Roosevelt)
UK (Churchill)
USSR (Stalin)

Question 3

What agreements were made at Teheran?

Answer 3

Plan for ‘D Day’ or ‘Operation Overload’

UK and USA agreed to support USSR troops in Europe

Question 4

What were areas of disagreement at Teheran?

Answer 4

Question of whether Russia will get involved in the Pacific

Question 5

Conditions to consider in the background of Teheran

Answer 5

Still in TOTAL war

These are alliances of necessity not choice

Question 6

Where was the Yalta conference held?

Answer 6

Yalta, Ukraine

Question 7

Month and year of Yalta

Answer 7

February 1945

Question 8

Who was at Yalta

Answer 8

USA (Roosevelt)
UK (Churchill)
USSR (Stalin)

Question 9

What was discussed at Yalta

Answer 9

What the plans would be after Germany’s defeat

Question 10

Agreements made at Yalta

Answer 10

Stalin to enter Pacific war
Germany be divided into 4 zones (British, French, American + Soviet) and Berlin be divided into 4 soviet zones
To find + punish nazi war criminals
Free elections in Eastern Europe
They joined the United Nations Organisation
Eastern Europe would be ‘a soviet circle of influence’

Question 11

Disagreements in Yalta

Answer 11

Stalin wanted border of USSR to move into Poland

Churchill + Roosevelt reluctant but accepted as long as USSR did not interfere with Greece to protect from communism

Question 12

Conditions of Yalta

Answer 12

Germany had not yet surrendered

Question 13

Where was the Potsdam conference

Answer 13

Potsdam, Berlin, Germany

Question 14

Month and year of Potsdam

Answer 14

July-August 1945

Question 15

Who was at Potsdam and why did it change

Answer 15

USA (Truman) - Roosevelt died
UK (Attlee) - new UK elections
USSR (Stalin)

Question 16

What was discussed at Potsdam

Answer 16

What to do about Germany
Reparations
Soviet party in Eastern Europe

Question 17

Agreements made at Potsdam

Answer 17

Reparations from Germany would be extracted from the zone that is controlled by the country (UK, FR, USA, USSR) and they could choose what to take from them with soviet reparations being supplemented from other zones
Eastern Europe to be ‘a Soviet sphere of influence’

Question 18

Disagreements at Potsdam

Answer 18

Stalin wanted to cripple Germany and take reparations but Truman didn’t want to repeat mistakes of T of V
Soviet policy in Eastern Europe - Stalin had set up pro-Soviet government but Truman became unhappy with stalin’s intentions

Question 19

Conditions to consider in Potsdam

Answer 19

America had successfully tested atomic bomb
New president Truman was very anti-communist
Stalin was occupying most of Eastern Europe and was very close to communist take over there
Stalin had not let free, democratic elections in Poland
Germany had been defeated

Question 20

Where was the Teheran conference?

Answer 20

Iran