What’s the context? Opening of the Potsdam Conference, 17 July 1945
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
On 17 July 1945 the last of the great tripartite wartime conferences between the US, the UK and Russia opened at Potsdam, near Berlin. All the major issues facing the postwar world were discussed there.