The Potsdam Conference was the conference held after the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany in order to decide how the country should be administered. The participants in this conference where USA, USSR, and UK, with Truman, Stalin, and Churchill and Atllee. The conference lasted for 16 days, from July 17 until August 2 1945. The conference was mostly held because all the countries from the winning side wanted some piece of Germany, so the end result was that East Germany was governed by the USSR, while the bigger western part was governed by the US, UK, and France.
