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The organization of Peace

  1. At the end of the war there was no peace conference such as Paris in 1919, but a council of foreign ministers of the Allied countries was responsible for drafting the peace treaties.
    A. Conferences and treaties while the war lasted, the Allies met several times to unify the strategies and plan the actions to be carried out.
    The first meeting took place in Casablanca (Morocco) in January 1943, where Roossevelt and Churchill decided the Africa campaign and the subsequent jump to Italy. In August of the same year they met in Quebec to treat the surrender of Italy. In October, it was decided in Moscow to replace the Society of Nations with a new world organization, and the landing of Allied troops by France, which was being requested by Stalin, was also studied in order for the German army to divide into Europe and thus alleviate The pressure that the Soviet front was holding.
    At the Teheran Conference (28 November-2 December 1943), Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin decided that, after the war, Japan would have to return to China all the occupied territories and agreed to launch Operation Overlord (Landing of Allied troops in Normandy, coast of France) and to divide Germany among the Allied ones.
    At the Yalta Conference (February 1945), Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill decided to divide Germany into four occupation zones and set the amount of 20 billion dollars to pay for Germany in ten years in the form of war reparations. Half of that amount would be to compensate the Soviet Union for human and material losses. They came to the agreement to convene a conference in San Francisco to draw up the status of the United Nations Organization (UN).
    The Potsdam conference, which ended on 2 August 1945, was attended by the new President of the United States, Truman, for the death of Roosevelt. In it it was decided to create an international tribunal to judge war criminals and Nazi collaborators, and it was the strategy to defeat Japan.