1. Creating Peace Setting up a Post War World

2. Conference/Players involved Significance Cairo 22 Nov – 26 Nov 1943 FDR, Churchill, Chiang Kai Shek  Korea to be free  Taiwan to be a part of China  Unconditional win Tehran 28 Nov – 1 Dec 1943 FDR, Churchill, Stalin  US and Britain agree to open a 2 nd front in Europe (France)  Stalin agrees to help with Japan after Hitler’s defeat

3. Conference/Players Involved Significance Yalta 4 Feb – 11 Feb 1945 FDR, Churchill, Stalin  Divide Europe between Democracy and Communism  USSR to attack Japan 3 months after Germany surrenders  Trials for losers San Francisco April – Oct 1945  Created the UN (50 Western and 15 Soviet States)

4. Conference/Players involved Significance Potsdam 17 July – 2 Aug 1945  Truman tells Stalin about A- Bomb  Beginning of Cold War?

5. Nuremburg Trials 12 killed, 7 imprisoned, 3 acquitted 1,000’s guilty of war crimes

6. Tokyo Trials Tojo and several others hanged 4,000+ guilty of war crimes

7. Postwar Japan and Germany US occupied Japan for 5 years ◦ MacArthur leads, Hirohito allowed to remain as non- divine Germany to be divided between US, Britain, France, and Soviet Union