Transcript WWII Diplomacy - Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy

WWII Diplomacy
Casablanca
Teheran
Yalta
Potsdam
United Nations
Casablanca
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2.
January 1943
Only attended by
Roosevelt and
Churchill
Agree to Invade
Sicily
Demand
“unconditional
surrender” from the
Axis powers
Teheran
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Roosevelt, Churchill,
Stalin meet for the first
time in November 1943
in Iran
Agree that U.S., Britain
would begin offensive to
liberate France in spring
of 1944
Soviets will invade
Germany
Soviets will eventually
join the war against
Japan
Yalta
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2.
February 1945, a resort
town on the Black Sea
coast of the U.S.S.R.
Significant long-tern
consequences
After victory in Europe,
the Allies agree that:
Germany would be
divided into occupation
zones
Free elections in newly
liberated Eastern
European countries
Yalta
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Soviets will enter the war against
Japan
 They do on August 8, 1945, just as Japan
was about to surrender after the drop of
the first A-bomb
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The U.S.S.R. will control some Pacific
islands and have special concessions
in Manchuria, China
A new world peace organization would
be formed at a conference in San
Francisco
End of the Big Three
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FDR dies in Georgia on
April 12, 1945
Vice President Harry S
Truman takes office,
charge of the war effort
In England, Winston
Churchill loses the Prime
Minister position to
Clement Atlee
Potsdam
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July 17-August 2, 1945 outside
Berlin, Germany
Agree to issue a warning to Japan to
surrender unconditionally
Hold war-crime trials of Nazi leaders
Truman notified that A-Bomb tests
successful, shares w/Churchill
Did they let Stalin in on everything?
War Costs
Human Costs
 300,000 Americans
die in the fighting
in Europe and the
Pacific
 800,000 wounded
Monetary Costs
 $320 billion (10x
what WWI cost)
 Federal spending
increased 1000%
between 1939 and
1945
 National debt rises
to $250 billion, 5x
debt of 1941
United Nations
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U.S., U.S.S.R., Britain,
China propose the U.N. in a
meeting in 1944 near
Washington, D.C.
Congress immediately
accepts the idea of the
U.N., unlike the League of
Nations after WWI
Delegates from 50 nations
meet in San Francisco for
eight weeks, draft the U.N.
Charter
U.S. joins on October 24,
1945