Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
Harry Truman & the Potsdam Conference: Student Activity
This activity allows students to see President Truman's perspective at the Potsdam Conference in 1945. Features include overview and firsthand accounts of conference, questions, vocabulary, and photos.
US Navy
Naval Historical Center: The Potsdam Conference, July August 1945
This is a brief summary with pictures of the Potsdam Conference.
National Archives (UK)
Cold War: The Potsdam Conference
An in-depth study of international relations at the time of the Potsdam Conference. Includes political cartoons, primary source documents, and teacher resources.
University of Virginia
Miller Center at Uva: Presidential Speeches: Radio Report to the American People on Postdam Conference
Read the speech President Harry Truman gave to the American public upon his return from the Potsdam Conference in August, 1945, following the surrender of Germany.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Truman's Report to the Nation on the Potsdam Conference
This ibiblio.org site ontains the actual report issued by President Truman about the Potsdam Conference.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was a wartime summit meeting whose purpose was to clarify and implement the terms for the end of WW2 that had been agreed at the Yalta Conference. It began on July 17, 1945, and ended on August 2, 1945.
PBS
Pbs: Wwii Behind Closed Doors:the Conferences
This site provides a comprehensive overview of many conferences between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill and the Allies' conferences with Stalin and others during World War II and includes links to related resources and media.
Other
Lebendiges Museum Online: Potsdamer Konferenz
This site from the Lebendiges Museum Online describes the events surrounding the Potsdam Conference which decided the future of the devided Germany. The site is entirely in German.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian: Dividing the Spoils
Historian Michael Beschloss discusses Harry S. Truman's role in the Potsdam Conference and examines how his decisions there paved the way for the Cold War. (December 2002)
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
Tpml: Truman and the Bomb, a Documentary History
This site offers a comprehensive list of primary source documents from Harry S. Truman regarding the Potsdam Conference and decision to use atomic weapons.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: The Potsdam Declaration
ibiblio.org provides the actual text of the Potsdam Declaration, the tripartite agreement signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Soviet Russia concerning conquered countries.
US Department of State
Milestones: 1937 1945: Wartime Conferences, 1941 1945
A brief description of each major conference held by members of the Allies in World War II discussing how the course of the war would be fought and ideas of what would happen when the war ended.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: The Presidency and the Cold War: Harry Truman
The National Portrait Gallery explores presidendtial actions in regard to the Cold War. Click on Harry Truman to see what actions and decisions he made during his term of office. Read about his meeting with Joseph Stalin at Potsdam, the...
Library of Congress
Loc: Cold War Estrangement
This site from the Library of Congress discusses the progress of World War II, and the nature of the postwar settlement at conferences in Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam.
US Navy
Uss Augusta Transports President Truman
[Archived Content] An article about the USS Augusta, a ship which transported President Truman to and from the Potsdam Conference.
Mount Holyoke College
International Relations: Communist Bloc Expansion in the Early Cold War
This Mount Holyoke college site provides the text of Douglas J. Macdonald's "Communist Bloc Expansion in the Early Cold War: Challenging Realism, Refuting Revisionism."
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
Harry S. Truman Library & Museum: Truman Biography
A very easy-to-read biographical sketch of Harry S. Truman. Includes suggestions for further reading.
National Archives (UK)
National Archives Exhibit: The Cold War
This resource enables the viewer to explore various events and topics of the Cold War through learning games, primary documents, and a tour through an interactive bunker.
Library of Congress
Loc: Churchill and the Great Republic
An interactive online exhibit about Churchill's life and especially his relationship with the United States.
National Archives (UK)
The Learning Curve: Allies at War
An extensive site chronicling the public consensus shown to the media among Allied members: the USSR, Great Britain, and the USA. Gives ample primary sources and student activities.
National Archives (UK)
Nalc: Cold War
The tension between Great Britain, United States, and the Soviet Union at end of World War II is surveyed with an excellent presentation with many links and images, a time line, glossary, and archive.
National Archives (UK)
Cold War: Allies at War What the Public Did Not See
A comprehensive search into the growing distrust between Allied countries at the beginning of the Cold War. Includes great primary source documents and questions directed toward students.
Geographic
Workmall: Germany: Postwar Occupation and Division
This article describes the formation of the Allied Occupation Zones that administered a defeated Nazi Germany in the aftermath of World War 2.
A&E Television
History.com: Vj Day: Victory Over Japan Day
Comprehensive discussion of V-J Day or the day victory was declared in Japan. Includes details and facts about World War II and the war in the Pacific, the surrender, related photos and speeches, battle maps, and more.