The Potsdam Conference

1. Read Source 17 (p 68). At Yalta, Churchill and Roosevelt had agreed with Stalin that eastern Europe would be a Soviet ‘sphere of influence’. Do you think Source 17 is what they had in mind?  
No I do not think that is what they had in mind. They didn't want communism to spread even more and that is what Stalin is suggesting. That he will do whatever he wants with his territory, whether it is what Roosevelt and Churchill agree with or not.





2. Would they agree with Stalin’s views expressed in Sources 17 and 18? Explain your answer.      
No they would not agree with Stalin's views expressed in sources 17 and 18. They wouldn't because they don't want Communism to spread into other parts of the world. They want those countries to be able to be a democracy not influenced by the U.S.S.R. to be communism.





3.  Explain how each of the three developments described in the text might affect relationships at Potsdam.
Each of these developments makes is so that the relationships are not as great as they were at Yalta. Each country is mad at each other because of these events. Mostly it is both Great Britain and the United States are mad at the Soviet Union because of all they have done, lied about the free elections, trying to convert other countries to communism, just all around they are mad at them.