Potsdam Conference
1945 Allied meeting
The Potsdam Conference was the July 1945 meeting of Allied leaders Truman, Churchill (later Attlee), and Stalin near Berlin to negotiate the postwar settlement of Europe.
The conference established terms for Germany's occupation, denazification, and reparations, and issued an ultimatum demanding Japan's unconditional surrender.
The borders drawn at Potsdam shaped the Cold War for decades.
Germany's largest city
- GermanyCentral European nation
- PolandCentral European republic
- Oder-Neisse linePolish-German border along rivers
- bordersLines separating regions
Compensation for historical wrongs
- demilitarizationRemoval of armed forces
- denazificationEliminating fascist ideology institutionally
- displaced personsPeople forced from home
- reconstructionRebuilding after destruction
partition · war crimes · Nuremberg · repatriation · Soviet expansion
Cold War-era president
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
- ChurchillManitoba's northern port
- AttleePostwar British prime minister
- Big ThreeChief triad of leaders
heads of state · summit · superpowers · Allies · power dynamics · succession · leadership transition · Roosevelt
Formal discussion seeking agreement
- ultimatumNon-negotiable final terms
- spheres of influenceAreas of dominant authority
- Iron CurtainCold War's political divide
- tensionStretched or strained state
disagreement · compromise · agenda · communiqué · terms · unconditional surrender
Berlin
Germany's largest city
- GermanyCentral European nation
- PolandCentral European republic
- Oder-Neisse linePolish-German border along rivers
borders · Prussia · Königsberg
reparations
Compensation for historical wrongs
- demilitarizationRemoval of armed forces
- denazificationEliminating fascist ideology institutionally
- displaced personsPeople forced from home
reconstruction · partition · war crimes · Nuremberg · repatriation · Soviet expansion
Truman
Cold War-era president
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
- ChurchillManitoba's northern port
- AttleePostwar British prime minister
Big Three · heads of state · summit · superpowers · Allies · power dynamics · succession · leadership transition · Roosevelt · victors
negotiations
Formal discussion seeking agreement
- ultimatumNon-negotiable final terms
- spheres of influenceAreas of dominant authority
- Iron CurtainCold War's political divide
tension · disagreement · compromise · agenda · communiqué · terms · unconditional surrender
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- German HistoryNazi, Prussia, Saxony, Reichstag, Napoleonic Wars
- Cold War GermanyBerlin Wall, East Germany, West Germany, German reunification, divided Germany
- Cold War OriginsIron Curtain, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Blockade, Berlin Airlift
- Postwar EuropeBerlin Wall, Marshall Plan, Iron Curtain, iron curtain, NATO
- WWII 1945V-E Day, V-J Day, VE Day, VJ Day, Hiroshima
Potsdam ConferenceMunich Agreement
1938 Czechoslovakia partition treaty
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact · declaration of war · invasion of Poland · war council · Pearl Harbor
Potsdam ConferenceMunich Agreement
1938 Czechoslovakia partition treaty
Munich Conference · invasion of Poland · Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact · appeasement
Potsdam ConferenceBerlin Blockade
Soviet isolation of western sectors
Warsaw Pact · Cuban Missile Crisis · Cold War · Truman Doctrine · Marshall Plan
conference, confer, conferring, conferences, conferred, conferee, preconference