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Posdam conference

The Potsdam Conference was organized by the Allied powers (the USA represented by Harry Truman, the USSR by Joseph Stalin, and the UK by Winston Churchill then Clement Attlee) to fix the fate of the enemy nations.
It began onJuly 17 and ended on August 2, 1945 at Cecilienhof Castle, near Potsdam, west of Berlin. On July 26, an ultimatum is served on the Empire of Japan, on behalf of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Republic of China. Potsdam was preceded by the inter-allied conferences of Tehranin December 1943 and Yaltain February 1945.
 It took place even before the end of the World War II to fix the fate of the enemies of the Allied forces. While Germany had surrendered two months earlier, victory was almost imminent over Japan, which had just suffered heavy territorial and military losses, and would lose even more with the two American atomic bombs: Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and with Nagasaki on August 9.
On September 2, 1945 Japan surrendered. The United States, authors of the world's first nuclear test on July 16, 1945, were in a strong position to negotiate. The Potsdam Agreement was promulgated and signed by the USA, the UK and the Soviet Union on July 26, 1945.
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