1. Instructional Objective: 3/18/2013 Examine and discuss the varied experiences of the WWII combatants. Key Question: How is the post war environment shaped from Tehran in ‘43 to Potsdam in ‘45? CCS: 2; 5 Homework: Exam Prep for Wednesday. Follow vacation schedule for Hmwk’s 52 and 53 + Timeline Challenge. #51: Chapter Three in “Cold War”, 25 Q/A of your creation, for Wednesday.

2. Tehran to Potsdam Germany’s invasion of Russia in 1941 forced Stalin to seek military help. In 1942 the Atlantic Charter gave support for the principle of national self-determination. The next year at the Casablanca Conference America reassured Russia that there would not be a compromise peace with Germany

3. Tehran to Postdam At the Teheran Conference in November Stalin met with Churchill and Roosevelt for the first time. The Red Army had just begun to push the Germans back after the Battle of Stalingrad, the Germans had been forced out of Africa, Italy had been invaded and America had halted the Japanese in the Pacific.

4. Tehran to Postdam Britain and America agreed to open a second front against the Germans early in 1944 by invading northern France. Stalin, in turn, promised to enter the war against Japan as soon as Germany was defeated. After the war Russia was promised compensation in Poland, whilst Poland would gain some German territory, and all the leaders agreed on the idea of a new world peace organization to replace the League of Nations.

5. Tehran to Potsdam The conference at Yalta in the Crimea was the first of the conferences in 1945 to try to plan out the future after the end of the war. It was attended by Stalin, Roosevelt and Stalin, although Roosevelt was already ill and died two months later.

6. Tehran to Potsdam Establishment of a United Nations Organization The division of Germany into occupation zones for each power Berlin (in the Russian zone) also to be split into zones (similar arrangements for the occupation of Austria.) Free elections to be held in the states of Eastern Europe Stalin would join the war against Japan 3 months after Germany’s defeat Bessarabia and the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia (seized by Stalin in 1939) would become part of the USSR

7. Tehran to Potsdam Issues at Yalta: Stalin wanted sections of China in return for helping us with Japan. Stalin already established a communist government in Poland by 1945. There is cooperation, but suspicions between West and East were evident.

8. Tehran to Potsdam Potsdam: July 1945. Stalin, Harry Truman and Clement Attlee (GB) What to do with Germany? It was understood that Germany should be disarmed, the Nazi Party disbanded and its leaders tried as “war criminals”. Yet, part of Germany was already established as a communist run government. This is what Churchill and Roosevelt had refused at Yalta.

9. Tehran to Potsdam (For the time being) Germany was to be run by a Control Council made up of the four military commanders of the four zones Germany was to be given the “chance to... rebuild its life on a democratic and peaceful basis”, including elections at some time in the future Nazi leaders were to be put on trial Reparations: each power could take what it wanted from its own zone, in addition, Russia could take 25% of the industrial equipment in other zones Similar arrangements were made for Austria

10. Tehran to Potsdam What about The Bomb” Truman informed Churchill, but did not inform Stalin. He did tell Stalin that the United States had developed a weapon far more destructive than any before. Stalin was reportedly “unimpressed” but that would change after August 6 th, 1945.

11. Tehran to Potsdam