Click2Flicks - VICTORY IN EUROPE - ANOTHER SHOCKING CHANGE - Chapter 3

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>VICTORY IN EUROPE</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 3 - ANOTHER SHOCKING CHANGE</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Midway through the seventeen-day <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1144829.shtml?sectionId=7&articleId=1144829"><b>meeting</b></a>, nearly everyone was <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/election_01.shtml"><b>stunned</b></a> when <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/churchill_audio.shtml"><b>Winston Churchill</b></a> - Britain’s <a target="_blank" href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/interactive/_html/wc0104_2.html"><b>war leader</b></a> - was voted <a target="_blank" href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/interactive/_html/wc0104_2.html"><b>out of office</b></a>. <a target="_blank" href="images/Clement%20Atlee.jpg"><b>Clement Atlee</b></a>, the new prime minister, took over <a target="_blank" href="images/negotiations_photo_army.signal.corps_aug.1945.jpg"><b>negotiations</b></a>   on behalf of the United Kingdom while Churchill went into seclusion for months. One can readily understand if the chemistry between the Allied leaders had changed.</P> <p>Attending his first war conference as leader of the United States, <a target="_blank" href="images/truman_truman.library_photo.63145729_at.potsdam.jpg"><b>Harry Truman</b> </a> had something else that was new in his life. The day before Potsdam discussions began, the American government had successfully tested a new weapon: the atomic bomb.</p> <p>Joseph Stalin, the one leader who spoke for his country at every Allied conference, also harbored <a target="_blank" href="images/a_secret.jpg"><b>a secret</b></a>. He never planned to remove his troops from the central-and-eastern-European countries <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_nm.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007314&MediaId=3376"><b>they had liberated</b></a>.  (Scroll down halfway and click on “Start” to see, and hear, the animated summary.) In some of those lands, like Bulgaria, forced <a target="_blank" href="http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/i_am_david/i_am_david_ch7.htm"><b>labor camps</b></a> already existed.</p> <p>Historians trace seeds of the Cold War to the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/i_am_david/i_am_david_ch2.htm"><b>Yalta</b></a> and Potsdam Conferences. To learn why, let’s step back in time to examine decisions made during the summer of 1945. We’ll begin our journey <a target="_blank" href="images/in_berlin_fall.of.berlin_april.1945.gif"><b>in Berlin</b></a>, the <a target="_blank" href="images/bombed_out_reichstag_berlin.1945.jpg"><b>bombed-out</b></a> German <a target="_blank" href="images/capital_berlin_1945.jpg"><b>capital</b></a> soon to become a city divided unto itself.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="victory_europe_ch2.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="victory_europe_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="victory_europe_ch4.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td>  <td align="center" valign="top"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.awesomestories.com/includes/ad_format.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td>  </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>