USA HISTORY

WORLD WAR II 1941 1945

THE YALTA CONFERENCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Why was VE Day critical for the Potsdam Conference?
A
There was no longer any need to maintain unity against Hitler
B
Everyone held huge celebrations
C
Roosevelt had died and Churchill had lost the 1945 election
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Big Three worked out many of the details of the postwar order in the Potsdam Agreement, signed on August 1. They confirmed plans to disarm and demilitarize Germany, which would be divided into four Allied occupation zones controlled by the United States, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Potsdam Conference, 1945. The Big Three-Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman-met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.

Detailed explanation-3: -But the biggest stumbling blocks at Potsdam were the post-war fate of Poland, the revision of its frontiers and those of Germany, and the expulsion of many millions of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe. The question of Poland had loomed large at both the Teheran and Yalta conferences.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Potsdam Declaration was intended from the start to serve as legal basis for handling Japan after the war. After the surrender of the Japanese government and the landing of General MacArthur in Japan in September 1945, the Potsdam Declaration served as the legal basis for the occupation’s reforms.

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