answersLogoWhite

0


Best Answer
Potsdam Conference, 1945

It was a long and complicated conference. The most important points were as follows.

Truman (for the US), Stalin (for the USSR) and Attlee (for Britain) agreed:

  • To divide Germany and Austria into three (or four) zones of occupation, with all the powers of occupation represented in Berlin abd Vienna. (Plans for breaking up Germany were rejected).
  • That areas of Germany east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers were to be transferred to the USSR and Poland, and it was resolved that the German population should be deported.
  • That the leading suspected war criminals were to be tried at Nuremberg.
  • Reparations (mainly to the USSR) were fixed.

Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, in Potsdam, Germany on 1945 by 3 countries, notably USSR headed by Joseph Stalin, USA led by president Harry S Truman and UK by Prime minister Winston Churchill later Clement Attlee. The main objective of this Potsdam Conference is to decide how to administer Post-war Germany which surrended unconditionally on 9 May 1945. Three main goals that are included in Potsdam Conference were -

1.Establishment of a country post-war

2.Peace treaties issues with neibouring countries

3.Countering the effects of war.

User Avatar

Wiki User

9y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar
More answers
User Avatar

Wiki User

11y ago

1. At the Potsdam conference in 1945, Britain, USSR, France and the US all agreed that Germany would be divided in to 4 zones as they had already decided at Yalta. They also confirmed that Berlin would be divided into 4 zones. The United Nations was set up at Potsdam and also Germany would pay some reparations.

This answer is:
User Avatar

User Avatar

Wiki User

15y ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Conference

This answer is:
User Avatar

User Avatar

Wiki User

12y ago

during the 1945 conference in potsdam the Big Three formalized the plan to divide Germany into four zones of occupation.

This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: What were the results of the Potsdam Conference?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp