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Percentages Agreement
Churchill + Stalin met in Moscow to establish the percentage of predominance Britain and USSR would have in Eastern European states (ex. USSR to have 90% of Romania + UK to have 90% of Greece) -
Yalta Conference
4-11 Feb 1945 - Meeting between the Grand Alliance (Churchill, Roosevelt + Stalin) in Crimea
Represented high point in allied cooperation prior to end of WW2
Agreed: Germany + Berlin divided into 4 zones (US,USSR,UK+Fr) UN formally ratified USSR gain land from Poland + Poland expanded to the west/north Declaration on Liberated Europe created -
Potsdam Conference
17 Jul - 1 Aug 1945 - after end of war in Europe (May 1945) - Truman, Churchill/Atlee + Stalin
Successful detonation of US atomic bomb day before the Potsdam Conference (Truman hoped this gave him diplomatic leverage)
Agreed: Germany to be demilitarised, de-Nazified, decentralised and disarmed freedom of speech/press to be restored USSR to receive reparations from it's own zone + 25% from western zone -
Provisional Gov of National Unity - Poland
Poland post war: Lublin Gov (pro-Stalin gov in Poland) + London Pols (Polish gov in exile in London) Provisional Government of National Unity formed in Jun 1945 - contained parties from both ends of the political spectrum (Stalin's pluralist approach)