Potsdam Declaration

Examples of Potsdam Declaration in the following topics:

• The Defeat of Japan

  • In addition to the Potsdam Agreement, which focused on the post-war order in Europe, on 26 July, Churchill, Truman, and Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China (the Soviet Union was not at war with Japan) issued the Potsdam Declaration which outlined the terms of surrender for Japan during World War II in Asia.
  • Contrary to what had been intended at its conception, the declaration made no direct mention of the Emperor.
  • The combined shock of these events caused Emperor Hirohito to intervene and order the Big Six to accept the terms for ending the war that the Allies had set down in the Potsdam Declaration.
  • The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945.
  • In the photo:  Stalin, Truman, and Attlee at Potsdam.

• The Atomic Bomb

  • Together with the United Kingdom and the Republic of China, the United States called for a surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration of July 26, 1945, threatening Japan with "prompt and utter destruction."
  • Following the bombings, Emperor Hirohito intervened and ordered the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War to accept the terms the Allies had set down in the Potsdam Declaration for ending the war.

• Terms of Surrender

  • Together with the United Kingdom and China, the United States called for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945—the alternative being "prompt and utter destruction."
  • Following these events, Emperor Hirohito intervened and ordered the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War to accept the terms the Allies had set down in the Potsdam Declaration for ending the war.
  • The term for Japan's surrender were decided at the Potsdam Conference.
  • On July 26 1945, the United States, Britain and China released the Potsdam Declaration announcing the terms for Japan's surrender, with the warning, "We will not deviate from them.
  • For Japan, the terms of the declaration specified:

• War Aims and Strategy

  • The conference produced a unified statement of purpose, the Casablanca Declaration, which announced to the world that the Allies would accept nothing less than the "unconditional surrender" of the Axis powers.
  • From July 17 to August 2, 1945, the three major Allied powers met in Potsdam, occupied Germany.
  • In addition to the Potsdam Agreement, on July 26, Churchill, Truman, and Chiang Kai-shek issued the Potsdam Declaration which outlined the terms of surrender for Japan during World War II in Asia.

• The Potsdam Conference

  • The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945.
  • However, the Potsdam Conference marks the first and only time Truman would ever meet Stalin in person.
  • The Soviet Union declared it would settle the reparation claims of Poland from its own share of the overall reparation payments.
  • Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, circa 28 July - 1 August 1945
  • Analyze the relations between the Allied nations at the Potsdam Conference

• Origins of the Cold War

  • At the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, the Allies met to decide how to administer the defeated Nazi Germany.
  • At Potsdam, the U.S. was represented by President Harry S.
  • On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill gave a speech declaring that an "iron curtain" had descended across Europe.
  • President Harry Truman and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945

• Converging Military Fronts

  • The former conference determined the post-war return of Japanese territory, while the latter included agreement that the Western Allies would invade Europe in 1944 and that the Soviet Union would declare war on Japan within three months of Germany's defeat.
  • On 11 July, the Allied leaders met in Germany at the Potsdam Conference.
  • They demanded unconditional surrender of Japanese forces, and when Japan ignored the Potsdam terms, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August.

• The Iron Curtain

  • On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill gave as speech declaring that an "iron curtain" had descended across Europe, pointing toward efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West.
  • Stalin's aims led to strained relations at the Yalta Conference (February 1945) and the subsequent Potsdam Conference (August 1945).
  • Nonetheless, at the Potsdam Conference, the Allies assigned parts of Poland, Finland, Romania, Germany, and the Balkans to Soviet control or influence.

• The Tehran Conference

  • It closely followed the Cairo Conference which had taken place on 22–26 November 1943, and preceded the 1945 Yalta and Potsdam conferences.
  • The declaration issued by the three leaders on conclusion of the conference on 1 December 1943, recorded the following military conclusions:
  • The leaders took note of Stalin's statement that if Turkey found herself at war with Germany, and as a result Bulgaria declared war on Turkey or attacked her, the Soviet Union would immediately be at war with Bulgaria.
  • In February 1945, Turkey declared war on Germany and Japan, which may have been a symbolic move that allowed Turkey to join the future United Nations.

• The Yalta Conference

  • It had been preceded by the Tehran Conference in 1943, and was followed by the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, which was attended by Stalin, Churchill (who was replaced halfway through by the newly elected British Prime Minister Clement Attlee) and Harry S.
  • The Declaration of Liberated Europe is a declaration that was created by Winston Churchill, Franklin D.
  • The declaration pledged, "the earliest possible establishment through free elections governments responsive to the will of the people."