Transcript What was going on behind the scenes at Yalta?

The ConferencesHow to End the War
Sadler
World History
Tehran - November 1943
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Scheduled D-day invasion of Normandy for
Spring 1944
Outcome - Eastern Europe would be liberated
by Soviet forces
Germany to be split up when war is over.
Yalta - February 1945
Military support
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Russia agreed to enter war against Japan following
German surrender
In return Russia would receive territory in Manchuria
& Sakhalin Island
Division of Germany
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Germany temporarily divided into four zones
Berlin divided into four zones
International Organizations
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Setting up of UN (to replace League of
Nations), to which Russia was invited
International War Tribunal to put Nazi war
criminals on trial
May 1945
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Hitler commits suicide
German military surrenders on May 7, 1945
V-E Day
But war rages on in the Pacific.
Potsdam - July 1945
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Roosevelt dead - Harry S. Truman new U.S.
President
Truman & Stalin argue over free elections in
Eastern Europe
Truman tells Stalin of “weapon of unusual
destructive force” - A bomb
Cold War to begin - Eastern Europe to remain
under Communist control.
Aug. 6 and 9, 1945
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Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
2 days later Nagasaki
Unconditional Japanese surrender on Aug. 15,
1945
V-J Day
Cold War
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Ideological Differences