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The leaders meet: Reporting from Potsdam
Aims:
- To understand why Cold War tensions began to emerge at Potsdam
- To apply the techniques of the historian to a public memorial and draw information and insights from it
- Demonstrate the ability to select key events and present them in a compelling narrative
Why the Potsdam conference gave rise to the Cold War
Change of Leadership at the start of the Cold War
Truman reveals the nuclear bomb programme to Stalin
