Question

Answer please! How did situations + agreements at Yalta in February 1945, differ to Potsdam in July 1945.

Answer 1

Firstly relations between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin in the Yalta conference was very different as Germany had to be divided into four zones of occupation.

Berlin to also be divided.

Stalin had a "sphere of influence" over Eastern Europe but all countries freed from Nazi Occupation would be allowed to be free.

They gave off some lands to other countries and change their country named to USSR.

Answer 2

Yalta - February 1945: Germany was not yet defeated, so, although there were tensions about Poland, the big three - Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill - managed to agree to split Germany into four zones of occupation, and to allow free elections in Eastern European countries. Russia was invited to join the United Nations, and Russia promised to join the war against Japan when Germany was defeated.

Potsdam - July 1945: Germany had been defeated, Roosevelt had died and Churchill had lost the 1945 election - so there were open disagreements. Truman came away angry about the size of reparations and the fact that a communist government was being set up in Poland. Truman did not tell Stalin that he had the atomic bomb