EURO 3300 Chapter 28: Europe Divided, 1945-1968 – page# 846-852 (February 9th)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: European Studies
• Course: EURO 3300
• Professor: Roberta Cauchi- Santoro

Document Summary

In 1945, soviet troops had liberated all the countries east of berlin and were fully in control of them: a 1944 percentages agreement between winston churchill and joseph stalin assigned. 1944 regarding the division of eastern europe: at yalta (1945), poland was placed in the hands of the soviets, while czechoslovakia"s fate remained open. De-nazification: the americans, aided by the british and french, swiftly rounded up nazi party members and collaborators, nuremberg trials postwar trials of nazi leaders and collaborators, held in nuremberg, Displaced persons: entire cities were in rubble, and many germans and others had fled west as the soviet armies advanced at the end of the war, between 11 and 20 million individuals were displaced persons. Czechoslovakia also expelled its germans there was much debate over who exactly was a. Ironically, the western defenders of democracy were enabling the elimination of populations promoted by the nazis.