HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Yalta Conference, Clement Attlee, Trygve Lie
22 Oct 2017
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U. s. only nation (to this day) to use nuclear weapons. This weapon is a game changer (ushers in new morality: should have given a warning test instead. There was risk that the bomb would be a dud: second bomb unnecessary. Or rushed (gave no time (3 days) for enormity to sink in) Decision: unconditional surrender (no negotiations unless about surrender, how and when to go on the offensive. This conference was to reassure the soviets that we are going to go through. Conference to decide the formation in post-war europe. Fdr, two months from his death, underestimates stalin"s intentions. Results: (we hold the ussr to these for 50 years: lines of division in europe between the ussr and western powers, poland and eastern europe will be free and unfettered elections after occupations, potsdam. Stalin, truman, churchill (attlee replaced churchill in england)
