Postdam Conference

New President

Jul 12, 1945

During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry Truman scarcely saw President Franklin Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman's to solve when, on April 12, 1945, he became America's 33rd President. (https://goo.gl/mKNXVp)

Harrry S. Truman Radio Address

Jul 13, 1945

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"Our party also visited what is left of Frankfurt and Darmstadt. We flew over the remains of Kassel, Magdeburg, and other devastated cities. German women and children and old men were wandering over the highways, returning to bombed-out homes or leaving bombed out cities, searching for food and shelter."

Allied victors of Postdam

Jul 14, 1945

Allied victors of PostdamOn this day in 1945, the conference of Allied victors at Potsdam, outside of Berlin, begins, with U.S. President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in attendance.

Atomic Bomb Tested

Jul 16, 1945

The United States test the atomic bomb for the first time.On this day in 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project comes to an explosive end as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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Conflict with Japan

Jul 17, 1945

On July 17, 1945, U.S. President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam to discuss issues relating to postwar Europe and plans to deal with the ongoing conflict with Japan
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Postdam leaders

Jul 17, 1945

Three leadersThe 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.

Full information

Jul 17, 1945

information about Postdam
Potsdam (German pronunciation: [ˈpɔtsdam]), is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg. It directly borders the German capital Berlin and is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, 24 kilometres (15 miles) southwest of Berlin's city center.

Speeches & Audio

Jul 17, 1945

Speeches & Audio
On April 16, 1945, Harry Truman makes his first official appearance before Congress as president of the United States, after being sworn in following the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt four days earlier. In his speech, Truman pledges to bring World War II to a victorious end.

Atomic bomb

Jul 21, 1945

Atomic bomb
July 21, 1945: Truman, who was in Potsdam, Germany at a conference with the leaders of Britain and the Soviet Union, receives his first full report on the Trinity Test. Over the course of the next couple of weeks, Truman would meet with Generals Marshall and Eisenhower, as well as with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill regarding this new weapon.

Truman.Vs.Stalin

Jul 25, 1945

Beneath the surface of wartime cooperation, there was always a level of distrust between the western allies and the Soviet Union (not least because Stalin had signed the Non-aggression Pact with Hitler in 1939). In part the causes of the distrust were ideological.
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Postdam delcaration

Jul 26, 1945

The Potsdam Declaration or the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender is a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II. On July 26, 1945, United States President Harry S. Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek issued the document, which outlined the terms of surrender for the Empire of Japan as agreed upon at the Potsdam Conference.(http://goo.gl/c3w7ls)

When we thought the war was over

Aug 2, 1945

[We thought the war was over]
Matters stood much where they had before the meeting.There would be no further wartime conferences.Four days after the conference concluded,the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan.
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Follwing actions

Aug 2, 1945

On July 26, the leaders issued a declaration demanding ‘unconditional surrender’ from Japan, concealing the fact that they had privately agreed to let Japan retain its emperor. Otherwise, the conference centered on postwar Europe.
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Another bomb

Aug 9, 1945

Another bombAnother bomb was dropped on Nagaski.The devastation wrought at Hiroshima was not sufficient to convince the Japanese War Council to accept the Potsdam Conference’s demand for unconditional surrender.

Conference finally ended!

Aug 14, 1945

[Postdam Conference]World war II officially came to a end!
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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.