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