The Post-War Settlement: Yalta and Potsdam
How the "Big Three" leaders divided Europe and the seeds of the Cold War.
Key Questions
- 1How did the map of Europe change after 1945?
- 2Why did the wartime alliance between the West and the USSR collapse so quickly?
- 3What was the purpose of the newly formed United Nations?
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