1. World War II
War conferences

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

3. Atlantic Conference 1941
Becomes the foundation of the UN Charter

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

8. Yalta Conference 1945 Decisions:
Germany to be disarmed & divided into 4 zones of occupation
Veto power for Big Five nations at the UN
Russia granted 3 seats in UN General Assembly
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
Russia pledges free elections in E. Europe
War crimes trials to be held after the war

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

10. 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