The Potsdam Conference gathered the leaders of the three main Allied powers at Cecilienhof Palace near Berlin to settle the shape of postwar Europe. Harry Truman, who had taken office after Roosevelt's death, met Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill was replaced midway by Clement Attlee after Britain's general election. The delegates agreed to demilitarise and denazify Germany, divide it into occupation zones, arrange reparations and place much of the former eastern territory under Polish administration. During the conference the Allies also issued a declaration calling on Japan to surrender, shortly before the atomic bombs were used.
Before and after
- 19 June 1945Birth of Radovan Karadžić
- 19 June 1945Birth of Aung San Suu Kyi
- 26 June 1945Charter of the United Nations
- 16 July 1945Trinity
- from 17 July 1945 to 2 August 1945Potsdam Conference
- from 20 July 1945 to 1 January 1959Operation Paperclip
- 26 July 1945Potsdam Declaration
- 26 July 1945Birth of Helen Mirren
- 30 July 1945Birth of Patrick Modiano
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