Major WW2 Conferences

Atlantic Charter Principles

- No territorial expansion - No territorial changed without consent of inhabitants - Self-determination for all people - free trade - cooperation for the improvement of other nations -disarming of all agressors -becomes foundation of U.N Charter

Yalta Conference

- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin - Yalta, Crimea, USSR (Russia) - Decisions: *Germany to be disarmed and divided into 4 zones of occupation *Veto power for Big Five Nations at the U.N *Russia granted 3 seats in U.N General Assembly *Eastern Polish border was set to the advantage of Russia *Russia pledged free elections in eastern Europe * War crimes trials to be held after the war

What does Russia get in exchange for entering the war against Japan 2-3 months after Germany surrenders?

- Southern Sakhalin Island - Concessions in Manchuria for ports - Joint control of Manchurian railroads - Central Kurile Island

Casablanca Conference

Accept nothing less than unconditional surrender of the Axis Powers

Postdam Conference

Attendees - TRUMAN, Stalin and Churchill/Attlee Location - Postdam, Germany - Decisions: Postdam Declaration *Set up a council to administer Germany * Set up machinery to negotiate peace treaties * German people to b moved out of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland into Germany * Russia announces there would be no elections in Europe

Teheran Conference

Attendees- FDR, 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

What was the Postdam Declaration?

Japan to surrender unconditionally or face prompt and utter destruction

Cairo Conference

Location - Cairo, Egypt Attendees - FDR, Churchill, and Chiang Kai Shek Decisions - Korea to be independent at war's end. Taiwan to be returned to China from Japan

The countries with permeant seats on the UN Security Council were

U.S, Britain, France, USSR, and China