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Steady Steps to the UN? Or Steady Steps to the Cold War?

Steady Steps to the UN? Or Steady Steps to the Cold War?. Wartime and postwar conferences. Atlantic/ Newfoundland Conference August 9-12, 1941. US Aims: Gain American support to back British (failed) Assure that there were no secret agreements (eg: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and Poland)

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Steady Steps to the UN? Or Steady Steps to the Cold War?

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  1. Steady Steps to the UN? Or Steady Steps to the Cold War? Wartime and postwar conferences

  2. Atlantic/ Newfoundland ConferenceAugust 9-12, 1941 US Aims: • Gain American support to back British (failed) • Assure that there were no secret agreements (eg: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and Poland) • Arrange repayment of Lend Lease Act – lower GB tariffs against the US

  3. Atlantic/ Newfoundland ConferenceAugust 9-12, 1941 GB Aims: • US backing of Allies would deter Japan from attacking

  4. Tehran ConferenceNovember 28-December 1 1943 • Establish an “enduring peace” • First meeting between Stalin and Allies • Discuss division of defeated Germany

  5. Yalta Conference February 1945

  6. Yalta Conference February 1945 • British and US try to limit Russian post-war influence in the Crimea • Roosevelt wants Russia to help in the Pacific theatre • Discuss division of a defeated Germany • Russia wants a communist Poland (protection)

  7. Potsdam ConferenceJuly 1945 • Churchill didn’t really want Stalin to help in the Pacific Theatre so Russia wouldn’t have too much influence in the Far East • America had successfully tested an atomic bomb and Truman would let Stalin know about a new bomb and Stalin had little reaction • Stalin’s objective to obtain economic help from war losses – reparations • US and GB no longer needed Russia’s support against Japan

  8. Primary Evidence

  9. Atlantic/ Newfoundland ConferenceAugust 9-12, 1941 Outcomes • Met aboard the USS Augusta to discuss war strategy/ plans • Outline postwar strategy: • Would not seek territorial expansion • Liberalization of international trade • Freedom of the seas • International labour, economic, and welfare standards • Restoration of self-governments for all countries that had been occupied during the war and allowing all peoples to choose their own form of government • US is still “neutral” • Creation of the Atlantic Charter

  10. Atlantic/ Newfoundland ConferenceAugust 9-12, 1941 Significance: • Publicly affirmed solidarity between U.S. and Great Britain against Axis • Laid out President Roosevelt’s Wilsonian-vision for the postwar world (self-determination, collective security, open seas, etc) • Inspiration for colonial subjects throughout the Third World to fight for independence.

  11. Tehran ConferenceNovember 28-December 1 1943 Outcomes • Western Allies assured Stalin they would invade France • Operation Overlord set for May 1944 - later delayed until June • Russia to help fight Japan after Germany was defeated

  12. Tehran ConferenceNovember 28-December 1 1943 Significance: • "We came here with hope and determination. We leave here, friends in fact, in spirit and in purpose." • Form a UN • Overlord alleviates pressure on Russia • Commission to work out the division of Germany

  13. Yalta Conference February 1945 Outcomes • Countries in the Crimea and Poland guaranteed free elections • Creation of UN confirmed (Charter) • Reparations • War Crimes • Soviet control of lands taken by Japan

  14. Yalta Conference February 1945 Significance • Race to claim Germany – Russia wins • Russia regains lands in the east • Russian liberated territories gain free vote • French to get a portion of the US/ GB zone of Germany

  15. Potsdam ConferenceJuly 1945 Outcomes: • German military prohibited and prevented • Germany to be administered as single economic unit by Allied Control Council • Stalin allowed to take 25% of West German industry in exchange for food, coal • Nazi leaders to be tried as war criminals at Nuremberg • Korea to be divided • etc

  16. Potsdam ConferenceJuly 1945 Significance: • Ultimatum to Japan to surrender • Stalin doesn’t hold to his promise to allow free votes in eastern Europe • Germany divided

  17. Division of Germany Russia enters Berlin first so they get a larger portion of Berlin and the area of Germany around it

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