The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...

President Harry S, Truman, centre pictured with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin at the Potsdam Conference History News Network This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website ...

Eighty years ago, on July 17, 1945, the last of the Second World War’s “Big Three” conferences was convened at Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany, in the Cecilienhof Palace. The key issues discussed and ...

In July 1945, 80 years ago, when World War II (WWII) in Europe was finally over, leaders of the three victorious powers - the Soviet Union, the UK and the US - gathered in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam ...

War’s thunder trailed off into a tinkling minuet. The dust of Sidi Barrani, Stalingrad and Aachen had dissolved; and there, as in a dream, were the clipped green lawns of Sanssouci. There was a second ...