The Three-power conference was held at Potsdam between Winston Churchill for Great Britain, President Truman for the U.S.A., and Marshal Stalin for the U. S. S. R., to determine the future of Germany after defeated, and to fulfil the contracts of Yalta, for the ordinary diplomatic negotiations could not solve these problems. First of all, the conference provided a committee of foreign ministers, and the political principles to be followed towards defeated Germany. These problems and the economic principles were determined easily. They made effort to have the concrete solution of the details, but it was very difficult, because the disagreements between the Western allies and the Soviets had deepened. Especially, the former had felt that the Soviet's requests -to keep the security of socialists states- were imperialistic and the Western allies was eagered to check that requests. At last they entrusted the solutions of the details to the committee of the foreign ministers which was weaker than that conference in the power of solving the problems. In spite of the economic principle of the conference, that economically Germany should be only one unit the committee determined the devided administration of Germany, which became the important cause of the cold war.
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