The Potsdam Conference begins in occupied Germany as President Harry Truman, Premier Joseph Stalin, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill discuss postwar policy. By this conference, the Soviet Red Army occupied all of Eastern Europe, and Stalin argued with Truman over the fate of the occupied European states.
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