On This Day: Potsdam Conference, 16th July 1945


	On This Day: Potsdam Conference, 16th July 1945
righthand
7-15-2008 9:47 PM
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7-16-2008 3:02 PM
carrerinyes
Much to be ashamed of...
7-17-2008 12:40 AM
masbury
And all the world lived happily ever after, except the communists, because of all the good things the USA had done - US history, nationalist version
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5ebef0cf-51f8-4b3f-9f4a-8c48dca1b063/A042BFD5-D0B6-4147-B43D-4E460D325881/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/16/newsid_4685000/4685683.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/16/newsid_4685000/4685683.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/16/newsid_4685000/4685683.stm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.bbc.co.uk/img/A25CE4E3-2D11-43F5-A388-8445406B12E7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/16/newsid_4685000/4685683.stm"><SPAN class="otdd">16 July</SPAN></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Potsdam_Conference&oldid=225600967" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Potsdam_Conference&oldid=225600967" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Potsdam_Conference&oldid=225600967"><H1 class="firstHeading">Potsdam Conference</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Potsdam_Conference&oldid=225600967">from <A title="July 16" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_16">July 16</A>, <A title="1945" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945">1945</A> to <A title="August 2" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2">August 2</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Potsdam_Conference&oldid=225600967">The French were not invited to participate. Although <A title="Poland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland">Poland</A> made the fourth-largest troop contribution to the Allied war effort, after the Soviets, the British and the Americans, Polish leaders were not invited to participate in the conference even though earlier they had been promised entry</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Trumanstalin.jpg&oldid=160161619" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Trumanstalin.jpg&oldid=160161619" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Potsdam_Conference&oldid=225600967">Stalin, Churchill, and Truman—as well as Attlee</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Potsdam_Conference&oldid=225600967">had gathered to decide how to administer the defeated <A title="Nazi Germany" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany">Nazi Germany</A>, which had agreed to <A title="Unconditional surrender" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional_surrender">unconditional surrender</A> nine weeks earlier, on <A title="May 8" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_8">May 8</A> (<A title="V-E Day" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-E_Day">V-E Day</A>). The goals of the conference also included the establishment of post-war order, peace treaties issues, and countering the effects of war.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Potsdam_Conference&oldid=225600967"><SPAN class="mw-headline">Potsdam Declaration</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Potsdam_Conference&oldid=225600967">on <A title="July 26" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_26">July 26</A> Churchill, Truman and <A title="Chiang Kai-shek" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek">Chiang Kai-shek</A> (the Soviet Union was not at war with Japan ) issued the <I>Potsdam Declaration</I> which outlined the terms of surrender for <A title="Japan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan">Japan</A> during WWII in Asia</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; 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display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Potsdam_Conference&oldid=225600967" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Potsdam_Conference&oldid=225600967" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Potsdam_Conference&oldid=225600967">Truman mentioned an unspecified "powerful new weapon" to Stalin</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Potsdam_Conference&oldid=225600967">who had known of its existence long</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A042BFD5-D0B6-4147-B43D-4E460D325881/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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