6.2 Friends and Enemies in Berlin

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6.2 Friends and enemies in Berlin

At the end of this lesson...

• You will be able to explain what was agreed upon during the Yalta Conference and the Potsdam Conference.
• You will be able to explain what spheres of influence and occupation zones are.

                 United States

• Capitalism
• Free market economy
• Several parties
• Freedom

                    Soviet Union

• Communism
• Planned economy
• One-party state
• Totalitarian state

Yalta Conference

February 1945

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

President of the United States

Jozef Stalin

Leader of the Soviet Union

Winston Churchill

Prime minister of Great Britain

Yalta Conference (February 1945)

• Churchill (GB), Roosevelt (US) and Stalin (SU)
  

• What will Europe and the world look like after the war?

• Who has power and influence in Europe? 

• What do we do with Germany and the Germans?

Yalta Conference (agreements) (1)

• Creation of the United Nations (UN)

• Democratic governments in Europe

• Stalin becomes an ally in the war against Japan

• War criminals will be punished

Yalta conference (agreements) (2)

• Denazification and democratization

• Spheres of influence

• Occupation zones: Germany and Berlin are divided into 4 zones

Spheres of influence

• Division of Europe:

• You have influence in any area you have conquered from the Germans

• You may determine what happens in that area (economics, politics)

• Remember this: The other person is not allowed to intervene in that area, even if you see all kinds of things that you do not agree with.
  

Potsdam Conference

(July-August 1945)

Clement Attlee

Prime minister of Great Britain

Harry Truman

President of the United States

Jozef Stalin

Leader of the Soviet Union

Potsdam Conference (agreements)

• War criminals will be punished (Nuremberg trials).

• Concrete agreements about the occupation zones.

The border between Poland and Germany moves further west.

Potsdam Conference (agreements 2)

• The German-speaking minorities from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary should leave these countries.

• Germany would remain an economic unit.

Division of Germany

• Germany will  no longer be independent (temporarily)

Four zones of occupation led by: France, England, the Soviet Union and the United States

• Berlin is also divided into 4 zones

• Traveling between occupation zones is no problem

• Remember this: Berlin is in the occupation zone of the Soviet Union

What was the Yalta Conference about?

What agreements on Germany have been made during the Potsdam conference?

Homework

Read individually and in silence: 6.2.1/6.2.2/(6.2.3)

Do in pairs: 

EX 1-8

20 minutes

Done? Show me and make a summary or study for another subject.

Review

You will be able to explain what was agreed upon during the Yalta Conference and the Potsdam Conference.

You will be able to explain what spheres of influence and occupation zones are.