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I. Wartime Conferences Prepare for Peace
a. U.S. took part in 15 major international conferences
b. Cairo-
November 1934- FDR, Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo, Egypt. Agreed on two issues: 1. Korea, then under Japanese domination, would be independent, and 2. Formosa, now Taiwan, would be returned by Japan to China.
c. Teheran-
In late Nov., FDR & Churchill proceeded to Teheran, Iran. Promised Stalin that a second front would soon be opened. Stalin in turn promised to attack Japan after Germany was defeated.
d. Yalta-
Yalta Conference- FDRs 2nd meeting with Stalin on the Black Sea
Big Three- reached tentative decisions about what to do with Germany after the war.
i. The Three leaders also agreed that German and Japanese leaders would be tried as criminals for the atrocities they had committed.
ii. The three set up the United Nations.
iii. Stalin, in exchange for Japans Kuril and Sakhalin islands, again promised to enter the war with Japan 2 or 3 months after Germany surrendered. U.S. felt they could not win without their help.
iv. Poland- Soviet Union wanted Poland to be a communist country while the U.S. and Britain favored the Polish government-in-exile
e. San Francisco-
April 1945- reps. of 50 nations met at San Francisco to establish an international peace-keeping body
The Soviet Union was only given 3 seats on the board instead of 15
f. Potsdam-
July 1945- Pres. Truman went to Potsdam, Germany, for the final wartime conference.
Germany took out 6.5 million Germans from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland
II. The United Nations Replace the League.
a. The United Nations- signed in June 1945, had a large deliberate body and a smaller executive body. Consists of:
General Assembly- all member nations
Security Council- Real power; U.S., Great Britain, France, the Soviet...
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