Potsdam: The Cold War

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The cold war was an unfortunate by product of the ending of WWII. The Potsdam conference was supposed to organize and help rebuild the post war Europe as well as determine new borders. President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin met in Potsdam, Germany to determine postwar borders. One of the most controversial matters addressed at the Potsdam Conference dealt with the revision of the German-Soviet-Polish borders and the deportation of several million Germans out of the discussed territories. In exchange for the land that it lost to the Soviet Union following the readjustment of the Soviet-Polish border, Poland received a large piece of German territory and began to deport the German residents of the lands in question, as did other

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