POTSDAM CONFERENCE

EVENTS LEADING

• An formed alliance
• After Yalta Conference
• After defeat of axis powers in WWII

Potsdam, Germany
July 17 to August 2, 1945

INVOLVED/REASON

• Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman
• Germany, Soviet Union, United States, France, Great Britain
• compromise terms for end of WWII
• Postwar borders in Europe

WILD CARD

RESULTS

• Political-Four zones of occupation in Germany
• Led to cold war

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/potsdam-conf
• http://www.johndclare.net/cold_war4.htm
• http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/potsdam_conference.htm
• http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/potsdam-conference