{"id":6376,"date":"2017-07-22T15:55:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T21:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6376"},"modified":"2017-07-22T15:55:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T21:55:20","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-16-22-july-1945-opening-of-the-potsdam-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6376","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 16–22 July 1945: Opening of the Potsdam conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

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British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, US President Harry S. Truman, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, Potsdam, July 1945 [Public domain, wiki]<\/p><\/div>The Potsdam conference opened this week in the war, on 17 July 1945.<\/p>\n

Three countries participated: The Soviet Union—represented by Joseph Stalin, the United States—represented by Harry S. Truman (who had become president following the death of President Roosevelt<\/a>), and Great Britain—represented at first by Winston Churchill and then by Clement Atlee, who became prime minister as a result of the Labour Party winning the July 1945 general election.<\/p>\n

The continuation of the war against Japan was a major item on the agenda. So was the re-organization of post-war Europe, including moving the boundary of Poland\u00a0westward into Germany.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a top-secret telegram was sent from Washington to Potsdam, to inform the US Secretary for War, Henry Stimson, that the atomic bomb had been successfully tested at Alamogordo in New Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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