President Roosevelt later died in April 1945. Harry S. Truman later went on to be president. Churchill’s conservative party was later defeated in an election. Clement R. Attlee took over the place of Churchill. Then in July of 1945, the three leaders met for the last time in Potsdam Germany, near Berlin. Allies agreed at Potsdam, that the lives of the Germans should be based on “A democratic and a peaceful basis.” The U.S.S.R. was charged of communizing countries in Eastern Europe by the United States and the United Kingdom. This brought many conflicts and disagreements. Although issues did arise, western nations hesitantly agreed to a Soviet-backed transfer of 40,000 square miles of Germany to Poland. The Soviet Union cut off nearly all contacts between the west and the taken territories in eastern Europe in 1945 and 1946. Winston Churchill claims this to be “an iron curtain that has descended across the continent of Europe.” Which refers to the Soviet barriers against the West. Behind the curtain lies the U.S.S.R. with lots of power. The U.S.S.R. took communist control over Bulgaria, Romania, Hungry, Poland, and Czechoslovakia between the years of 1946 and 1948.These countries were now called the Soviet Satellites. The East and West continued to fight. The U.S.S.R. rejected a proposal from the United States in 1946. The proposal included an international research for production of nuclear energy. The Soviet Union denied the U.S. proposal because they thought “The United States would have a lead in nuclear weapons and would have a monopoly if controls were approved.” The Soviet Union “Pictured itself as a defender of peace, and accused the United states of planning a third world war.”
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