Hamby, Alonzo. New York: Oxford University Press. Stimson, Henry L. Truman, Harry S. New York: W. Norton and Sons. The decision to drop the Atomic Bomb. Read these letters to his wife Bess concerning the Potsdam Conference noting important details about Truman's character and the rhetoric used. Letter to Bess July 20, Letter to Bess July 22, Letter to Bess July 25, Letter to Bess July 27, Letter to Bess July 29, Letter to Bess July 31, The United States supported Italy as a U.
In a Potsdam plenary meeting, Stalin stated, "If a government is not fascist, a government is democratic. Examine the Yalta agreement to find your answer. Argue for or against it. Create a chart that compares and contrasts Truman's letters. Note similarities and differences in diction, style, and content. Harry Truman and the Potsdam Conference. Lesson Author. Adams, Mark. Course s. American History. Required Time Frame.
Subject s. Atomic Bomb. While the meeting at Yalta had been reasonably friendly, the Potsdam Conference was fraught with disagreements, which were the result of some significant changes that had taken place since the Yalta Conference. A new US President:. While Roosevelt had been willing to work with Stalin, largely because he needed the USSR to join the war against Japan, Truman made little secret of his dislike for communism and for Stalin personally.
Truman remarked that he was tired of babying the Soviets and that the only language Stalin understood was how many army divisions do you have? Nuclear threat:. Just before the Conference began, on 16 July , the USA had successfully exploded an atomic bomb at their test site in the New Mexico desert.
When first told about the success of the experiment, Truman is said to have remarked: if it works At Potsdam, Truman chose to inform Stalin that the US possessed a new weapon of unusual destructive force.
Although Stalin already knew details about the Manhattan Project through his spy networks, he was able to complain at this treatment and the fact that there were secrets between supposed Allies. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had agreed to meet following the surrender of Germany to determine the postwar borders in Europe. Germany surrendered on May 8, , and the Allied leaders agreed to meet over the summer at Potsdam to continue the discussions that had begun at Yalta.
Although the Allies remained committed to fighting a joint war in the Pacific, the lack of a common enemy in Europe led to difficulties reaching consensus concerning postwar reconstruction on the European continent.
The major issue at Potsdam was the question of how to handle Germany. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler predicted a quick victory, but after initial success, the brutal campaign dragged on and eventually failed due to strategic blunders The instability created in Europe by the First World War set the stage for another international conflict—World War II—which broke out two decades later and would prove even more devastating.
Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Report on the Tehran Conference. Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Moscow Conference. Roosevelt Reports on Teheran and Cairo Conferences.
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