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Yalta Conference. Yalta Conference. Key points of the meeting are as follows: Agreement to for the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany.
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Yalta Conference Key points of the meeting are as follows: Agreement to for the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. After the war, Germany and Berlin would be split into four occupied zones. Stalin agreed that France would have a fourth occupation zone in Germany, but it would have to be formed out of the American and British zones. Germany would undergo demilitarization. German reparations were partly to be in the form of forced labor..
The status of Poland was discussed. It was agreed to reorganize the communist Provisional Poland that had been installed by the Soviet Union to a more “democratic basis.” • Stalin pledged to allow free elections in Poland, he never honored this promise. • Roosevelt acquired a commitment from Stalin to participate in the U.N.
Potsdam Conference WHAT IS DIFFERENT FROM THE FIRST PICTURE? (Seated, left to right): British Prime Minister Clement Attlee; U.S. President Harry S. Truman; Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.
Potsdam and the atomic bomb • The conference resulted in thePotsdam Declaration regarding the surrender of Japan and The Potsdam Agreement regarding the Soviet annexation of former Polish territory east of the Curzon Line • At the Potsdam Conference, President Truman chose to tell Stalin ohatthe U.S. possessed "a new weapon of unusual destructive force."