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 ...

Truman and Joseph Stalin in the garden at Cecilienhof during the 1945 conference.Credit...U. S. Army Signal Corps, via Harry S. Truman Library The show, “Potsdam Conference 1945: Shaping the ...

Convened to decide the fate of postwar Europe, The Potsdam Conference got off with a bang ... In a quiet moment, Truman told Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin about a U.S. weapon of “unusual ...

“I can deal with Stalin. He is honest — but smart as hell,” the 33rd president of the United States wrote in a diary entry dated July 17, 1945, the first day of the Potsdam Conference in German ...

The following excerpt from Beschloss’ book portrays an increasingly self-confident Truman sparring with Stalin and Churchill at Potsdam, site of the 17-day conference held in July and August to ...

Truman, who had been in office since April 12, met for the first time with Soviet leader Josef Stalin. They conferred — two months after the defeat of Nazi Germany — at the Potsdam Conference ...

Here, Stalin is pictured shaking hands with Harry Truman and Winston Churchill at the Potsdam Conference in 1945 to negotiate the end of World War II in Potsdam, Germany. After suffering a stroke ...

The very next day, President Truman met Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam conference outside Berlin. Truman did not know Stalin, and had been president for just four months.

Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin negotiated the post-war ... The Yalta Conference (February 4–11, 1945) and the Potsdam Conference (July 17–August 2, 1945) established the ...

“I can deal with Stalin. He is honest – but smart as hell,” the 33rd president of the United States wrote in a diary entry dated July 17, 1945, the first day of the Potsdam Conference in German ...