The Potsdam Conference was a meeting held in Potsdam, Germany between July 17 and August 2, 1945 and held at the Cecilienhof Palace. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. The heads of government of these three nations were the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Iósif Stalin, the prime minister Winston Churchill and the president Harry S. Truman.
They had agreed to decide how they would manage Germany, which had surrendered unconditionally on May 8. The objectives of the conference also included the establishment of a postwar order, peace treaty matters, and the study of the effects of war.
Luis Fernando Ruiz Valdez 