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Total Deaths estimated at 75 million Total monetary costs $4 Trillion

Total Deaths estimated at 75 million Total monetary costs $4 Trillion. Big Three (Grand Alliance): Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt. TEHRAN. Conference at Tehran, November 1943 Discuss future course of the war—invade Germany through Balkans or France?

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Total Deaths estimated at 75 million Total monetary costs $4 Trillion

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  1. Total Deaths estimated at 75 million Total monetary costs $4 Trillion

  2. Big Three (Grand Alliance): Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt TEHRAN • Conference at Tehran, November 1943 • Discuss future course of the war—invade Germany through Balkans or France? • Decision: Operation Overlord (Normandy) set for Spring of 1944

  3. YALTA • Conference at Yalta, February 1945 • DECISIONS… • All three agreed to a “Declaration on Liberated Europe”—agree to assist liberated nations • Soviet Union agreed to military assistance for the war against Japan in exchange for territory in the Pacific • All three agreed to the create and participate in the United Nations • All three agreed to need for an unconditional surrender of Germany • All three agreed to set up occupation zones in Germany manned by GB, France, US, and Soviet Union

  4. POTSDAM • Conference at Potsdam, July-August 1945 • Truman replaces Roosevelt (Roosevelt died April 12) • Clement Atlee replaces Churchill mid-July • Truman demands the guarantee of the “Declaration on Liberated Europe” be honored • Stalin refuses… free governments in eastern Europe will threaten Soviet security • Wants to spread communism to surrounding nations as “buffer states”

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