Timeline Tuesday 17 July 1945

Events on Tuesday 17 July 1945 1

• 1945 Potsdam Conference Allied leaders set terms for postwar Germany and Japan Truman, Churchill (replaced mid-conference by Attlee), and Stalin met near Berlin to finalize occupation policy for Germany and issue an ultimatum demanding Japan's unconditional surrender. The conference also confirmed the Oder-Neisse line as Poland's western border. Disagreements here foreshadowed the Cold War split.