The Wartime conference: The opening shots of the cold war
- The leaders of the Big Three nations (Russia, USA and Great Britain) met to talk about the post war world
- Teheran, Nov.-Dec. 1943 (opening of a second Front (D-Day9 and Soviets agree to join the Pacific war)
- Yalta Feb., 1945 (Zones for dividing Germany, Stalin promised free elections in Soviet liberated areas)
- Potsdam, July-Aug. 1945 (Talks about disarm Germany and the punishment of the war criminals)
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The Big Three decided very crucial things during the Wartime Conferences. Especially the Conference of Yalta was clearly related to the upcoming Cold War. The Big Three decided to divide Germany what later led to East and West Germany. Stalin also promised free elections in Soviet liberated areas, but this would never happen.