Unit 8 AP World History Cold War & Decolonization After 1900 Latest 2022 Graded A+

Big Three allies during WWII; Soviet Union - Stalin, United Kingdom - Churchill, United States - Roosevelt/Truman Tehran Conference First major meeting between the Big Three (United States, Britain, Russia) at which they planned the 1944 assault on France and agreed to divide Germany into zones of occupation after the war Yalta Conference FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War Potsdam Conference The final wartime meeting of the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union was held at Potsdam, outside Berlin, in July, 1945. Truman, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the future of Europe but their failure to reach meaningful agreements soon led to the onset of the Cold War. Harry Truman () Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb; Korean War during his presidency Cold War A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years. Dwight Eisenhower () Republican; Ended Korean War; Maintained peaceful coexistence with USSR; Established modern Republicanism; warned against the militaryindustrial complexSelf-determination Concept that ethnicities ha