The Potsdam conference : a teaching strategy involving primary documentation. by Sweeny, Michael J.

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Between war and peace : the Potsdam Conference / by Feis, Herbert, 1893-1972

Table of Contents: “…The time of testing -- Differing ideas about how to deal with the Soviet Government -- British-American colloquy -- The urge to re-examine the American attitude toward the Soviet Union -- Prologue to Hopkins' trip to Moscow -- Cooperation and dissent at the San Francisco Conference -- Hopkins-Stalin talks: the first avowals -- Hopkins-Stalin talks on Poland and the satellites -- Hopkins-Stalin talks on Far Eastern situations -- Relief for the San Francisco conference -- Davies' visit to London -- Discord with Gaulle -- Clearing the way to the Potsdam conference -- pt. 4. Terminal: the conference at Potsdam -- Preparatory work and attitudes -- The secret that traveled to Potsdam -- Toward a peace conference -- The fomer satellites of Germany -- Spain -- Poland: debate on general questions -- Poland: the struggle over frontiers -- Germany: the crucial questions -- Germany: political principles -- Germany: economic principles -- Germany: reparations -- The springing arch of the conference -- A backward glance at the accords about Germany -- Austria -- Yugoslavia and Greece -- Turkey and the Black Sea straits -- Iran, the Levant, the Italian colonies, Tangier -- France -- Potsdam: impressions and epilogue -- Supplementary notes -- Maps -- Index.…”
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Britannica editor Jeff Wallenfeldt discusses V-J day, the Potsdam Conference, and the end of WWII /

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Cold war summits : a history, from Potsdam to Malta / by Tudda, Chris, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The Potsdam Conference : the beginning of the Cold War? -- The Bandung Conference : the rise of the developing world -- The beginning of détente : the Glassboro Summit -- The 1972 Beijing conference : Nixon and Mao change the world -- The Vienna Summit : the beginning of the end of détente -- The Malta Summit : the end of the Cold War.…”
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The most controversial decision : Truman, the atomic bombs, and the defeat of Japan / by Miscamble, Wilson D., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Byrnes, the atomic bomb, and the Pacific War -- The Potsdam Conference, the Trinity test, and 'atomic diplomacy' -- Hiroshima, the Japanese, and the Soviets -- The Japanese surrender -- Necessary, but was It right? …”
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The most controversial decision : Truman, the atomic bombs, and the defeat of Japan / by Miscamble, Wilson D., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Byrnes, the atomic bomb, and the Pacific War -- The Potsdam Conference, the Trinity test, and 'atomic diplomacy' -- Hiroshima, the Japanese, and the Soviets -- The Japanese surrender -- Necessary, but was It right? …”
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Witness to history.

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Terminal Conference, July 1945 : papers and minutes of meetings, Terminal Conference /

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The decision to employ nuclear weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki / by Majerus, Joe

Table of Contents: “…The Decision to employ Nuclear Weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Table of Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The War against Japan; 2.1 Imperial Resistance; 2.2 Tactics of Strategic Bombing; 2.3 Operation Downfall; 3 Alternatives for ending the War; 3.1 The impracticalities of a diplomatic solution; 3.2 Conventional alternatives: Military and Economic; 3.3 Soviet assistance; 4 Paths to Nuclear Destruction; 4.1 "Shock and Awe"; 4.2 The Potsdam Conference: Final Chance to avoid Nuclear Holocaust; 4.3 The Empire's Last Stand; 4.4 The selection of targets; 5 The Detonation of Atomic Bombs.…”
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Freedom betrayed : Herbert Hoover's secret history of the Second World War and its aftermath / by Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

Table of Contents: “…A great intellectual and moral plague comes to free men -- I make an appraisal of the forces moving among nations in 1938 -- A revolution in American foreign policies -- 1939: in Europe, a year of monstrous evils for mankind -- The Communist-Nazi conquest of Europe -- More American action--stronger than words--but less than war -- Brainwashing the American people -- The revolution in American foreign policies continued -- The opportunity to make lasting peace comes to Franklin Roosevelt -- The road to war -- The march of conferences -- The march of conferences--the Tehran-Cairo conferences November-December 1943 -- The march of conferences--the Yalta conference: February 4-11, 1945 -- The rise, decline and fall of the Atlantic Charter -- The first days of the Truman administration -- The march of conferences--the Potsdam conference and after -- A step-by-step history of Poland -- The decline and fall of free China--a case history -- The case history of Korea -- Vengeance comes to Germany -- Appendix: Selected documents pertaining to Freedom betrayed.…”
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Japan surrenders /

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The memoirs of Harry S. Truman : a reader's edition / by Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Table of Contents: “…Childhood, boyhood, youth 1884-1901 -- Banker, farmer, soldier, haberdasher 1901-1922 -- County Judge 1922-1934 -- Senator 1934-1944 -- Vice President 1944-1945 -- Being President -- President-first days April 12-30. 1945 -- United Nations Conference April-June 1945 -- End of the war in Europe April-May 1945 -- Martha Ellen Truman visits the White House May 1945 -- Preparing to meet with Churchill and Stalin May-August 1945 -- Potsdam Conference July 6-August 3, 1945 -- International challenges at war's end April-October 1945 -- Cabinet 1945-1946 -- Demobilization and universal military training May-October 1945 -- Budget -- Postwar economic problems 1945-1948 -- Atomic energy after Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Foreign Aid Lend-Lease, the British Loan, Food Aid, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, Point Four -- Reorganizing for national security 1945-1949 -- NATO 1948-1952 -- Berlin Airlift 1948-1949 -- Israel -- Civil War in China 1945-1949 -- Fair Deal the 21-point message, full employment, civil rights, housing, agriculture, health care -- Election of 1948 -- Communisim, Anti-Communism and Civil Liberties -- Seizure of the steel mills 1951-1952 -- Korean War 1-Invasion June-October 1950 -- Korean War 2-Chinese Intervention October-December 1950 -- Korean War 3-MacArthur is removed from his commands;stalemate and negotiatians 1950-1953 -- Campaign and transition 1952.…”
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Bitter legacy : Polish-American relations in the wake of World War II. by Lukas, Richard C., 1937-

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Letters to Australia, Volume 2 : Essays from The 1940s. by Stone, Julius

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Uprooted : how Breslau became Wrocław during the century of expulsions / by Thum, Gregor, 1967-

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The Cold War through documents : a global history /

Table of Contents: “…The Yalta Conference, February 1945: Declaration on Poland ; Agreement regarding Soviet entry into the war against Japan -- The Potsdam Conference, July-August 1945 : excerpts from the Berlin (Potsdam) Conference report, 2 August 1945-- The Atomic bombing of Hiroshima, August 1945 : statement by President Truman, 6 August 1945 -- Ho Chi Minh's Declaration of Independence for Vietnam, 2 September 1945 : Excerpts from Ho Chi Minh's speech declaring independence for Vietnam, 2 September 1945 -- Stalin's Election Speech, February 1946 -- Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, March 1946 ; Highlights of Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, 5 March 1946 ; Excerpts from Pravda's interview with Stalin, March 1946 -- The Baruch and Gromyko plans for control of atomic weapons, 1946 ; Speech by Bernard Baruch to the UN Atomic Energy Commission, 14 June 1946 ; Draft international agreement to forbid the production and use of atomic weapons, proposed by Andrei Gromyko on 19 June 1946 -- The Truman Doctrine, 1947 ; President Truman's speech to the nation, 12 March 1947 -- The Marshall Plan, 1947 ; Marshall's commencement address at Harvard University, 5 June 1947 George F. …”
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American History Awards 1917-1991 : From Colonial Settlements to the Civil Rights Movements. by Fischer, Heinz D.

Table of Contents: “…About the American Position at the Potsdam Conference; 1962 Award. About the Pre-Revolution Years in America.…”
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The Second World War and the Americas 1933-45 / by Wright, John, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…3 The Yalta Conference, 4-11 February 19454 The Potsdam Conference, 17 July to 2 August 1945; 5 US-Latin American relations during the Second World War; Examination advice; Examination practice; CHAPTER 5 The military and diplomatic role of Canada and Brazil in the Second World War; 1 Canada's military role in the Second World War; 2 Canada's diplomatic role in the Second World War; 3 Brazil, Mexico and Argentina's role in the Second World War; Examination practice; CHAPTER 6 The social impact of the Second World War on the USA.…”
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Europe since 1914 : encyclopedia of the age of war and reconstruction /

Table of Contents: “…Nagy, Imre -- National Front -- NATO -- Nazism -- Negritude -- Neoliberalism -- Netherlands -- New Economic Policy (NEP) -- New Left -- New Sobriety -- New Zealand -- Nice Treaty -- Nicholas II -- 1968 -- 1989 -- Nobel Prize -- Northern Ireland -- Northern League -- Norway -- Nuclear Weapons -- Nuremberg Laws -- Nuremberg War Crimes Trials -- Occupation, Military -- Old Age -- Olympic Games -- OPEC -- Opera -- Operation Barbarossa -- Ophüls, Marcel -- Opinion Polls and Mass-Observation -- Opus Dei -- Orff, Carl -- Organisation for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) -- Ortega y Gasset, José -- Orwell, George -- OUN/UPA -- Owen, Wilfred -- Pabst, Georg Wilhelm -- Pacifism -- Painting, Avant-Garde -- Paisley, Ian -- Pakistan -- Palestine -- Palme, Olof -- Papandreou, Andreas -- Papon, Maurice -- Paris -- Parliamentary Democracy -- Partisan Warfare -- Pasolini, Pier Paolo -- Pasternak, Boris -- Paul VI -- Pavelić, Ante -- Penicillin -- Perestroika -- Pessoa, Fernando -- Pétain, Philippe -- Phenomenology -- Phonograph -- Piaf, Edith -- Picasso, Pablo -- Piłsudski, Józef -- Pogroms -- Poincaré, Raymond -- Poland -- Police and Policing -- Political Prisoners -- Pop Art -- Popular Culture -- Popular Front -- Portugal -- Portuguese Empire -- Postmodernism -- Potsdam Conference -- Poulenc, Francis -- Pound, Ezra -- Powell, Enoch -- Prague -- Prague Spring -- Press and Newspapers -- Primo de Rivera, Miguel -- Prisoners of War -- Prodi, Romano -- Prokofiev, Sergei -- Propaganda -- Prostitution -- Psychiatry -- Psychoanalysis -- Public Health -- Public Transport -- Purges -- Putin, Vladimir -- Quantum Mechanics -- Quisling, Vidkun -- Racial Theories -- Racism -- Radar -- Radio -- Radio Free Europe -- Railways -- Rasputin, Grigory -- Rathenau, Walther -- Rationing -- Recession of 1970s -- Reconstruction -- Red Army Faction -- Red Brigades -- Red Cross -- Refugees -- Reinhardt, Max -- Remarque, Erich Maria -- Renault -- Renoir, Jean -- Reparations -- Resistance -- Rexist Movement -- Rhineland Occupation -- Riefenstahl, Leni -- Riots in France -- Rolland, Romain -- Rolling Stones -- Romania -- Romanies (Gypsies) -- Rome -- Rome, Treaty of -- Rosenberg, Alfred -- Rossellini, Roberto -- Rushdie, Salman -- Russell, Bertrand -- Russia -- Russian Civil War -- Russian Revolutions of 1917 -- Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de -- Sakharov, Andrei -- Salazar, Antonio -- Salzburg Festival -- Samizdat -- Sarajevo -- Sartre, Jean-Paul -- Sassoon, Siegfried -- Saussure, Ferdinand de -- Schmidt, Helmut -- Schmitt, Carl -- Schoenberg, Arnold -- School of Paris -- Schröder, Gerhard -- Schuman, Robert -- Schumpeter, Joseph -- Science -- Scotland -- Sebald, W.G. -- Secularization -- Seghers, Anna -- Semiotics -- Semprún, Jorge -- Senghor, Léopold Sédar Serbia -- Sexuality -- Seyss-Inquart, Arthur -- Shevardnadze, Eduard -- Shostakovich, Dmitri -- Sibelius, Jean -- Sinn Féin -- Situationism -- Škoda -- Slánský Trial -- Slovakia -- Slovenia -- Social Democracy -- Social Insurance -- Socialism -- Socialist Realism -- Solidarity -- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander -- Soviet Union -- Space Programs -- Spain -- Spanish Civil War -- Spartacists -- Speer, Albert -- Sputnik -- Srebrenica -- SS (Schutzstaffel) -- Stakhanovites -- Stalin, Joseph -- Stalingrad, Battle of -- Stanislavsky, Konstantin -- Stasi -- Stauffenberg, Claus von -- Stavisky Affair -- Stein, Gertrude -- Strauss, Richard -- Stravinsky, Igor -- Stresemann, Gustav -- Strikes -- Student Movements -- Suárez, Aldofo -- Sudetenland -- Suez Crisis -- Suffrage -- Suffrage Movements -- Surrealism -- Sweden -- Switzerland.…”
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"Great men" in the Second World War : the rise and fall of the big three / by Dukes, Paul, 1934-

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