Wartime Conferences

Setting The Stage For A New World
Order

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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