On This Day, 7-17-08: Potsdam

Potsdam Conference begins The final “Big Three” meeting between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain takes place towards the end of World War II. The decisions reached at the conference ostensibly settled many of the pressing issues between the three wartime allies, but the meeting was also marked by growing suspicion and tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. On July 17, 1945, U.S. President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Mi

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