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Date Posted: 00:57:52 05/09/03 Fri
Author: Mr John D Clare
Subject: Wartime Conferences' impact on Cold War
In reply to: 's message, "Wartime conferences impact on Col d War" on 00:43:35 05/09/03 Fri

Answer this as above, really, only tweaking the explanation part of each paragraph to draw out how each conference impacted on the Cold War.

The early conferences of the war were perhaps less influential:

1. AUG 1941 - ATLANTIC CHARTER
Bound USA to Britain - this might have affected what side Britain would be on.

2. DEC 1943 - TEHRAN CONFERENCE
Britain and America's delays over opening a second front certainly contributed to Stalin's anger and hostility towards them.

3. AUGUST 1944 - DUMBARTON OAKS
5. JUNE 1945 – SAN FRANCISCO CONFERENCE
Irrelevant, really - except perhaps in that they did not set up a UN strong enough to stop the Cold War.

However, it wis arguable that the later conferences laid the foundations of the Cold War.

4. FEB 1945 - YALTA CONFERENCE
see <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.johndclare.net/cold_war4.htm.">http://www.johndclare.net/cold_war4.htm.</a> Discussed eastern Europe and the division of Germany. First signs of tension between the allies.

6. JULY 1945 – POTSDAM
see <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.johndclare.net/cold_war5.htm.">http://www.johndclare.net/cold_war5.htm.</a> Discussed Poland, reparations and eastern Europe. Open disagreement between US and USSR – led to salami tactics and Churchill’s Fulton speech = start of Cold War.

A key word for this part of the essay, I think, would be LEGACY - the Cold War as the legacy of the dealings between the powers at the wartime conferences.

On the other hand - however, of you want to be controversial - it is perhaps arguable that the wartime conferences in fact DELAYED the Cold War by keeping the allies together as long as necessary to defeat Hitler - ie that they didn't contribute anything to the Cold War, but that the factors causing the Cold War were underlying factors (beliefs, aims, history) and that the wartome conference held them off, not ushered them in.

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