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During the Conference, Truman was secretly informed that the Trinity test of the first atomic bomb on July 16 had been successful. He hinted to Stalin that the U.S. was about to use a new kind of weapon against the Japanese.
Jul 11, 2024 · Potsdam Conference (July 17–August 2, 1945), World War II Allied conference held at Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin. The chief participants were U.S. President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (or Clement Attlee, who became prime minister during the conference), and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nov 9, 2009 · At the 1945 Potsdam Conference, U.S. President Truman, Soviet leader Stalin and British Prime Minister Churchill negotiated political goals after World War II.
Research the Potsdam Conference and the postwar power struggle in depth focusing on the issues that were important to the Big Three. Divide the class into three groups, the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. Debate the primary issues that face the three nations.
This collection contains documents related to President Harry S. Truman's trip to the Potsdam Conference. Allied representatives of Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States met to discuss the occupation of Germany, how to end the ongoing war with Japan, reparations, and other topics.
On July 26, 1945, United States President Harry S. Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chairman of China Chiang Kai-shek issued the document, which outlined the terms of surrender for the Empire of Japan, as agreed upon at the Potsdam Conference.
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At Potsdam, Truman chose to inform Stalin that the US possessed ‘a new weapon of unusual destructive force’.
