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World War II

World War II. War conferences. Atlantic Conference 1941. Attendees: Roosevelt & Churchill Location: Off Newfoundland Decisions: The Atlantic Charter principles No territorial expansion No territorial changes w/o consent of inhabitants Self-determination for all people Freer trade

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World War II

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  1. World War II War conferences

  2. Atlantic Conference 1941 • Attendees: Roosevelt & Churchill • Location: Off Newfoundland • Decisions: The Atlantic Charter principles • No territorial expansion • No territorial changes w/o consent of inhabitants • Self-determination for all people • Freer trade • Cooperation for the improvement of other nations • Disarming of all aggressors

  3. Atlantic Conference 1941 • Becomes the foundation of the UN Charter

  4. Casablanca Conference 1943 • Attendees: Roosevelt & Churchill • Location: Casablanca, Morocco • Decision: Accept nothing less than unconditional surrender of the Axis powers.

  5. Cairo Conference 1943 • Attendees: Roosevelt, Churchill, & Chiang Kai-shek • Location: Cairo, Egypt • Decisions: Korea to be independent at war’s end. Taiwan to be returned to China from Japan.

  6. Teheran Conference 1943 • Attendees: Roosevelt, Churchill, & Stalin • Location: Teheran, Iran • Decisions: Agreement to open a second battlefront in Europe. • Russia agreed to enter war against Japan after defeat of Germany.

  7. Yalta Conference 1945 • Attendees: Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin • Location: Yalta, Crimea, USSR • Roosevelt’s goals: • Get Stalin to agree to enter the war in the Pacific • Get Stalin to accept a United Nations • Have Stalin promise to allow free elections in Poland at the end of the war

  8. Yalta Conference 1945 • Decisions: • Germany to be disarmed & divided into 4 zones of occupation • Veto power for Big Five nations at the UN • Russia granted 3 seats in UN General Assembly • In exchange for entering war against Japan w/in 3 months after Germany surrenders, Russia gets land in and around Manchuria, Southern Sakhalin Is., and Central Kurile Island • Russia pledges free elections in E. Europe • War crimes trials to be held after the war

  9. Potsdam Conference 1945 • Attendees: Truman, Stalin, & Churchill/Attlee • Location: Potsdam, Germany • Decisions: Potsdam Declaration—Japan to surrender unconditionally or face prompt and utter destruction

  10. Potsdam Conference 1945 • A council is set up to administer Germany • German people are moved out of Czechoslovakia, Hungary & Poland into Germany • Russia announces there would be no elections in eastern Europe • Truman learns in Potsdam that the atomic bomb was successfully tested in New Mexico

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