CAS IR 349 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Katyn Massacre, Wilhelm Keitel, Crimea
30 Nov 2017
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Lecture 21: war aims to peace aims: yalta to potsdam. The preliminary bargain: churchill and stalin partition eastern europe, october 1944: churchill & stalin make a deal (moscow, october 1944, list of countries with percentages, the percentages agreement . A possibility: the future of eastern europe (february 1945, declaration on liberated europe, the issue of poland, the territorial issue. Polish communists who had escaped to the soviet union. London poles vs. lublin poles : communist polish government established in city of lublin as red army liberates, the compromise. Poland: the polish compromise, communist government in control, non-communist parties allowed to participate, free elections in the future. Roosevelt and hitler depart: roosevelt dies in office, harry truman becomes next us president, hitler with eva braun jointly committed suicide following a hasty wedding on april 30, 1945. The end of the war in europe (rheims, france, may 7, 1945: german general alfred jodl signs the document of unconditional surrender at general.
