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Yalta • Germany to be divided into 4 Changes
zones, as would Berlin (GB, Fr,
• February 1945. USA & USSR). • On April 12 1945 Roosevelt
• Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill - • Poland to gain land from died.
the Big Three. Germany, but lose some to • Roosevelt was replaced by
• Yalta - southern Soviet Union. USSR. Truman. He was openly anti-
• USSR to declare war on Japan Communist.
3 months after end of European • He said he would 'get tough with
war. the Russians'.
• USSR guarantees free • During the Potsdam
elections for Eastern Europe. conference, Churchill lost an
election and was replaced by
Attlee.

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Potsdam Iron Curtain


• Outside Berlin, July-August Agreement? • One year later Stalin set up the
1945. Germany had been Iron Curtain.
• Plans for division of Germany
defeated. • Term coined by Winston
agreed, Germany to pay
• Change in the Big Three meant Churchill in speech at Fulton,
reparations (USSR), war
that the personalities had Missouri in 1946.
criminals to be tried, and United
changed. • Border between East and West
Nations set up.
• Disagreements at this Europe - Stalin took control of
• Truman demanded USSR hold
conference saw the beginnings Eastern Europe to act as a
of the Cold War. free elections for Eastern
buffer zone to any future
Europe.
invasion from the West.
• Stalin angry Truman didn't
mention atomic bomb which
Stalin secretly knew about.
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