WORLD WAR II WAR CONFERENCES ATLANTIC CONFERENCE 1941

WORLD WAR II WAR CONFERENCES

ATLANTIC CONFERENCE 1941 • Attendees: Roosevelt & Churchill • Location: Off Newfoundland • Decisions: The Atlantic Charter principles 1. No territorial expansion 2. No territorial changes w/o consent of inhabitants 3. Self-determination for all people 4. Freer trade 5. Cooperation for the improvement of other nations 6. Disarming of all aggressors

ATLANTIC CONFERENCE 1941 • Becomes the foundation of the UN Charter

CASABLANCA CONFERENCE 1943 • Attendees: Roosevelt & Churchill • Location: Casablanca, Morocco • Decision: Accept nothing less than unconditional surrender of the Axis powers.

CAIRO CONFERENCE 1943 • Attendees: Roosevelt, Churchill, & Chiang Kai-shek • Location: Cairo, Egypt • Decisions: Korea to be independent at war’s end. Taiwan to be returned to China from Japan.

TEHERAN CONFERENCE 1943 • Attendees: Roosevelt, Churchill, & Stalin • Location: Teheran, Iran • Decisions: Agreement to open a second battlefront in Europe. • Russia agreed to enter war against Japan after defeat of Germany.

YALTA CONFERENCE 1945 • Attendees: Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin • Location: Yalta, Crimea, USSR • Roosevelt’s goals: 1. Get Stalin to agree to enter the war in the Pacific 2. Get Stalin to accept a United Nations 3. Have Stalin promise to allow free elections in Poland at the end of the war

YALTA CONFERENCE 1945 • Decisions: 1. Germany to be disarmed & divided into 4 zones of occupation 2. Veto power for Big Five nations at the UN 3. Russia granted 3 seats in UN General Assembly 4. In exchange for entering war against Japan w/in 3 months after Germany surrenders, Russia gets land in and around Manchuria, Southern Sakhalin Is. , and Central Kurile Island 5. Russia pledges free elections in E. Europe 6. War crimes trials to be held after the war

POTSDAM CONFERENCE 1945 • Attendees: Truman, Stalin, & Churchill/Attlee • Location: Potsdam, Germany • Decisions: Potsdam Declaration—Japan to surrender unconditionally or face prompt and utter destruction

POTSDAM CONFERENCE 1945 • A council is set up to administer Germany • German people are moved out of Czechoslovakia, Hungary & Poland into Germany • Russia announces there would be no elections in eastern Europe • Truman learns in Potsdam that the atomic bomb was successfully tested in New Mexico