War and Piece

On July 17, 1945, the Potsdam Conference began.  The war in Europe had ended in the heart of Berlin two months before, and the heads of state from the United States, England, and Soviet Union met in Potsdam (one of the few relatively undamaged suburbs of Berlin).  In a somewhat interesting twist, the 3 leaders there at the start of the Conference (Truman, Churchill, and Stalin) would not be there at its conclusion.  Winston Churchill’s Conservative Party had been recently defeated in th

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