todaysdocument: Notes by Harry S. Truman on the Potsdam Conference, July 17, 1945 On July 17, 1945, two months after Germany surrendered to the Allies at the end of World War II, President Harry S. Truman came face to face with Marshal Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, one of the most brutal autocrats of all time, a meeting recounted in this page from Truman’s diary. The night before this meeting, Truman learned that the United States had successfully tested the world’s first atomic bomb, which may explain his diary’s cryptic reference to “dynamite.” Here’s an image of Stalin, Truman, and Great Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill.  The leaders of the three largest Allied nations were gathered to discuss the political future of Europe and the state of the war still raging in the Pacific.
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Notes by Harry S. Truman on the Potsdam Conference, July 17, 1945

On July 17, 1945, two months after Germany surrendered to the Allies at the end of World War II, President Harry S. Truman came face to face with Marshal Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, one of the most brutal autocrats of all time, a meeting recounted in this page from Truman’s diary. The night before this meeting, Truman learned that the United States had successfully tested the world’s first atomic bomb, which may explain his diary’s cryptic reference to “dynamite.”

Here’s an image of Stalin, Truman, and Great Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill.  The leaders of the three largest Allied nations were gathered to discuss the political future of Europe and the state of the war still raging in the Pacific.