Cold War Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Potsdam Conference and surrender of Japan=== {{Main|Potsdam Conference|Surrender of Japan}} [[File:The new "Big Three" meet for the first time at the Potsdam Conference in Potsdam, Germany. L to R, new British Prime... - NARA - 198950.jpg|thumb|[[Clement Attlee]], [[Harry S. Truman]] and [[Joseph Stalin]] at the [[Potsdam Conference]], 1945]] At the [[Potsdam Conference]], which started in late July 1945 after Germany's surrender, serious differences emerged over the future development of Germany and the rest of Central and Eastern Europe.{{sfn|Byrd|2003}} The Soviets pressed their demand made at Yalta, for $20 billion of reparations to be taken from Germany occupation zones. The Americans and British refused to fix a dollar amount for reparations, but they permitted the Soviets to remove some industry from their zones.{{sfn|Moss|1993|p=256}} Moreover, the participants' mounting antipathy and bellicose language served to confirm their suspicions about each other's hostile intentions and to entrench their positions.{{sfn|Wood|2005|p=62}} At this conference Truman informed Stalin that the United States possessed a powerful new weapon.{{sfn|Gaddis|2005|pp=24β26}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page