The POTSDAM
CONFERENCE

1945

A Day-By-Day Account by Jim McDonough

In this series of articles, we take a day-by-day look at the Potsdam Conference held just outside Berlin following the end of the Second World War in Europe.

The first, and last time, that US President Harry Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin would meet.

Seventeen days in the summer of 1945 that would change the course of human history forever.