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He refused to promise to allow free elections in Eastern Europe.
Truman was always suspicious of communists. It was when Stalin objected to Winston Churchill's proposal for the Allied forces to withdraw from Iran that Truman became more alarmed.
The meeting of Allied leaders in July of 1945 was called the Potsdam Conference. This meeting took place in Potsdam, Germany from July until August.
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After meeting with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Potsdam Conference in 1945, President Harry Truman believed that maintaining a strong stance against the Soviet Union was necessary. He saw the Soviets as a potential threat and wanted to contain their influence and expansion through a policy known as containment, which later became a cornerstone of his foreign policy approach during the Cold War.
Potsdam of the federal state of Brandenburg in Germany. It was known as the Potsdam conference.
Atlee, Truman and Stalin...were the main leaders at the Potsdam conference although Churchill did sit through some meetings.
Franklin Roosevelt represented the US at the Yalta Conference, meeting with Stalin and Churchill.
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