Charles River Editors
ASIN: B01HDZF6TO
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 67
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the conference by some of the participants*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“If we can put this tremendous machine of ours, which has made this victory possible, to work for peace, we can look forward to the greatest age in the history of mankind. That's what we propose to do.” - President Harry S. Truman at a July 1945 flag-raising ceremony in Berlin Standing in history like a milestone marking the boundary between one era and the next, the Potsdam Conference brought together the leaders of the three major Allied powers – the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom – for the last time at the end of World War II and at the threshold of the Cold War. A follow up to the Yalta Conference just five months earlier, Potsdam attempted to work out the contours of the postwar ...