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May 3, 2024 · While in Potsdam, Truman told Stalin about the United States’ “new weapon” (the atomic bomb) that it intended to use against Japan. On July 26 an ultimatum was issued from the conference to Japan demanding unconditional surrender and threatening heavier air attacks otherwise.
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Some sources suggest Truman delayed the conference in order for it to meet after the results of the first atomic bomb test were known. [8] [9] The conference was eventually set to begin July 16 at Cecilienhof in Potsdam, near Berlin. Cecilienhof, site of the Potsdam Conference, pictured in 2014.
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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.
Between July 17 and August 2, 1945, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26, 1945, by Prime Minster Clement Attlee), and US President Harry Truman met at Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate the terms for the end of World War II.
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The most powerful and destructive armament to date, the atomic bomb was solely in the hands of the United States government. President Truman recalls many of the successes and problems of the Potsdam Conference and the postwar world in his diary entries and letters to his wife, Bess Wallace Truman.
At Potsdam, Truman chose to inform Stalin that the US possessed ‘a new weapon of unusual destructive force’.
The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee ), and U.S. President Harry Truman —met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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