1945, 大国博弈下的世界秩序新格局 = End of World War II and the remaking of Europe

After Germany's defeat in World War II, the victorious Allies faced the daunting task of negotiating a lasting peace. On July 17, 1945, Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill gathered in Potsdam, a quiet suburb of Berlin, to discuss, as Churchill put it, the gravest matters in the world. Award-winning historian Michael Neiberg vividly captures the delegates personalities: Truman, eager to escape from the shadow of the recently deceased FDR; Churchill, bombastic and seemingly out of touch; Stalin, cunning and meticulous; and the introverted Clement Attlee, who replaced Churchill as prime minister after a stunning election result midway through the conference. Stalin had the strongest position; having already conquered Eastern Europe, he saw little reason to let it go. Yet Truman had an ace up his sleeve: the success of the atomic bomb test