1. Creating Peace Setting up a Post War World

2. Conference/Players involved Significance Cairo 22 Nov – 26 Nov 1943 FDR, Churchill, Chiang Kai Shek  Korea to be free  Taiwan to be a part of China  Unconditional win Tehran 28 Nov – 1 Dec 1943 FDR, Churchill, Stalin  US and Britain agree to open a 2 nd front in Europe (France)  Stalin agrees to help with Japan after Hitler’s defeat (reason for A-Bomb?)

3. Conference/Players involved Significance Casablanca 1 Jan – 24 Jan 1943 FDR, Churchill, DeGaulle  Unconditional surrender for Axis Nations  Operation Torch 1 st THEN Overlord 2nd 2 nd Quebec Conference 9 Nov-16 Nov 1944 FDR, Churchill  Agreed to divide Germany into 4 occupation zones

4. Conference/Players Involved Significance Yalta 4 Feb – 11 Feb 1945 FDR, Churchill, Stalin  Divide Europe between Democracy and Communism  USSR to attack Japan 3 months after Germany surrenders  Trials for losers San Francisco April – Oct 1945 30 Western & 15 Soviet States  Created the UN (security council and membership)

5. Conference/Players involved Significance Potsdam 17 July – 2 Aug 1945  Truman tells Stalin about A- Bomb  Beginning of Cold War?

6. Postwar Japan and Germany US occupied Japan for 5 years ◦ MacArthur leads, Hirohito allowed to remain as non- divine Germany to be divided between US, Britain, France, and Soviet Union

7. Nuremburg Trials 12 killed, 7 imprisoned, 3 acquitted 1,000’s guilty of war crimes

8. Tokyo Trials Tojo and several others hanged 4,000+ guilty of war crimes