1. Today’s Agenda: Conferences 10th World Studies 5.23.17
Turn in:
Potsdam Reading
Take out :
Planner/Calendar
Note-taking device
Today’s Learning Objectives:
I can describe the events of a battle or operation of WWII and its impact on Europe.
Today’s Agenda:
Conferences
There’s just so many…
Let’s revisit Yalta & move on to Potsdam
HW:
Be ready for WWII Battle Exam

2. CRIMEA CONFERENCE, UKRAINE February 1945
Yalta Conference
CRIMEA CONFERENCE, UKRAINE
February 1945

4. Yalta Conference 6 Topics Discussed:
Want unconditional surrender of Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan)
League of Nations was ineffective— US, England, Russia, France, China should form United Nations (international organization to keep peace after war)

5. Yalta Conference Topics Discussed:
3. Russia would declare war on Japan (& help USA invade Japan) after Germany surrendered
4. Divide Austria, Germany & capital Berlin into 4 occupied zones (controlled US, England, France, & USSR)

7. Yalta Conference Topics Discussed:
5. Roosevelt & Churchill afraid Stalin would make Eastern Europe communist after war; wanted Self Determination (right to choose democracy or communist) for Eastern European Countries: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, & Bulgaria

8. Yalta Conference
6. Stalin agreed to self-determination if could have part of Poland; Poland—should have free elections

9. AGREEMENT AT YALTA
DIVIDE GERMANY INTO FOUR (4) ZONES TO BE OCCUPIED AFTER THE WAR BY:
BRITAIN
FRANCE
USA
USSR

10. WHAT ELSE DID WE AGREE TO?
ELECTIONS WILL BE HELD IN THE COUNTRIES OF EASTERN EUROPE
GOVERNMENT OF POLAND WILL BE BOTH COMMUNIST & NON-COMMUNIST
SET UP THE UNITED NATIONS!!!!!

11. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED? STALIN NEVER HELD FREE ELECTIONS IN POLAND
FDR DIED ONLY TWO (2) MONTHS LATER
TRUMAN (NEXT PRESIDENT) WOULD ATTEND THE NEXT POST-WAR CONFERENCE
HITLER DIES APRIL 30
GERMANY SURRENDERS MAY 2, 1945

12. “The SOVIET UNION HAS BEOME A DANGER TO THE FREE WORLD.”
Churchill wrote this to Roosevelt after the Yalta Conference. The leaders of the three countries would meet one more time: Potsdam

13. In July 1945, the Big Three met at the Potsdam Conference to discuss the end of WWII
Truman learned the atomic bomb was ready & issued the Potsdam Declaration to Japan: “surrender or face destruction”

14. Potsdam July 17, 1945 U.S., USSR, Britain
First conference to include Truman
Decided that Japan must surrender unconditionally or risk total destruction
Truman alludes to the atomic bomb
Established cooperative council to administer Germany
Promoted safe transfer and return of war refugees
Soviet declaration that there will be no free elections
The West considers this an act of betrayal
Beginning of the Cold War???

15. After the second atomic bomb, Emperor Hirohito agreed to a surrender
When Japan refused to surrender, Truman ordered the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945
After 3 days, Japan did not surrender so a 2nd atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki
After the second atomic bomb, Emperor Hirohito agreed to a surrender

16. World War II was over