Wartime Conferences

Atlantic Charter – 8/40

• Before the war Roosevelt and Churchill met in secret on a ship in the Atlantic.

   

• Signed the Atlantic Charter stating the goals of the war:

   

  -no territorial expansion

  -no territorial changes without permission of inhabitants.

  -self determination

  -freer trade.

  -cooperation to improve other nations.

  -disarming of aggressor nations.

• The Atlantic Charter was eventually signed by 15 countries including the Soviet Union and became the basis of the United Nations.

Cairo Conference – 11/43

• Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek agreed that Korea would become independent.

   

• Taiwan would be returned to China from Japan.

Tehran Conference – 11/43

• Roosevelt and Churchill assure Stalin a second front would be opened soon.

Yalta Conference – 10/44

• Try German and Japanese leaders as war criminals.

   

• Agreed to set up the United Nations.

   

• Soviet Union agrees to enter the war after Germany is defeated.

   

• Roosevelt and Churchill agree to accept a Communist Polish government and Stalin agrees to “free and unfettered” elections in Eastern Europe.

Potsdam Conference – 7/45

• Stalin, Churchill and Truman meet to discuss post war plans.

   

• Germany divided into 4 zones.

   

• Stalin makes it clear he has no intention of allowing free elections in Eastern Europe.

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