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What was decided at the conference meetings

of the Big Three 1944–45?
As WWII ground towards its
end, the Allied leaders held a
series of meetings to decide
upon and argue over the future
of Europe.
This photograph was taken at
the Tehran Conference in
February 1943. The three
leaders seem united in posing
for the photo side by side, but
was this the case?

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The Tehran Conference

What was agreed at Tehran? Click on each spoke of the spider diagram to learn more.

Who achieved
their goals?
The
Poland meeting was mainly a success for Stalin who achieved Second Front
most of what he wanted. This was because Roosevelt was
notarea
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Eastern Europe, was rejected.
United Nations Japan

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The Yalta Conference

What was agreed at Yalta? Click on the Reveal button to show each spoke of the spider
diagram.
The Soviet Union would enter the
Eastern Europe would Germany would be
war against Japan once Germany
be a Soviet ‘sphere of divided into four
had surrendered.
influence’. zones: US, British,
French and Soviet.
The three powers would What was agreed at
join the new United
Nations Organisation in Yalta? Berlin would be divided
order to maintain peace into four zones in the
once the war ended. Reveal
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Countries that had been liberated Nazi war criminals would be

from German occupation were to hunted down and tried in an
have free elections to choose the international court of justice.
government they wanted.

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Division of Germany after Yalta

What was agreed at Yalta? Click the reveal button to see how Eastern Europe,
Germany and Berlin were divided.

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Changes between Yalta and Potsdam

Between the conferences at Yalta and Potsdam several events changed the
relationship between the USA and the Soviet Union. Can you work out what the
impact of each event was? Click on the card to reveal the answer.

The USA successfully tested an atomic

This removed the glue keeping the
Death
wartime of Hitler
alliance together. US atomic
bomb. The USA nowbomb test
had nuclear
superiority over the Soviet Union.

Stalin had established a communist Roosevelt had died and been

Communist government
government in Poland – breaking Death of
succeeded Roosevelt
by the much more
in Poland
the Yalta promises of ‘free elections’. anti-communist Harry Truman.

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The Potsdam Conference

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Division of
Germany
Poland Germany would pay reparations to the Allies in Democracy
equipment
It was decided
Democracy and
to materials.
divide
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this would
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and go to in Germany
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industrial
the Allies.
would alsogoods bemade in the western zones in
demilitarised.
return for food and coal from the Soviet zone.

United German
Nations Ending reparations
Nazism

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