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You know the old saying into every war a little chatter must fall or in the [Woman whispering into mans ear]

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case of World War two a whole lot of chatter beginning in 1943 the Allies met

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on multiple occasions to discuss the wars progress and how they should go

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about reshaping the world once all the shooting had stopped after all it's hard

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to discuss things when they're shooting happening this gets so noisy in November

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1943 when Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin sat down for a little heart-to-heart in [Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin sitting together]

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what became known as the Tehran conference things were finally looking

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up for the Allies Iran was under joint British Soviet control and was providing

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lots of sweet sweet oil to Mother Russia the Americans the British had landed in

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Italy a development which had encouraged the Italians to force Mussolini on a [Soldier chasing Mussolini]

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power and the Soviets had wiped the floor with the Germans at Stalingrad so

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what did the Allied leadership talk about well mostly who they had secret

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crushes on and whether or not their hair would look good in a side ponytail what [Stalin, FDR and Churchill at a sleepover]

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do you think more for Stalin all right but once the important stuff was out of

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the way they talked about the operation that would become d-day and what would

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have to happen for the Soviets to declare war on Japan they talked about

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International Cooperation and the organization that would become the

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United Nations and they talked about ceding a whole lot of territory to Uncle

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Joe then they watch Disney movies until they fell asleep all right well the next [Stalin, FDR and Churchill watching disney movie in bed]

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big confab occurred in February 1945 at the Crimean resort town of Yalta at this

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point the Allies knew Europe was almost theirs they just had to figure out what

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to do about Japan so after a little light sunbathing and a trip to the bar [FDR, Stalin and Churchill drinking at a bar]

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for those fruity drinks with an umbrella and Stalin Churchill and Roosevelt

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agreed that the Soviets could have Manchuria in exchange for declaring war

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Japan this was a really big deal for everybody concerned in fact the Alta

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conference made people think that the Americans and the Soviets were gonna be [Stalin and FDR riding bikes]

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besties even after the war was over hooray for friendship by the time the

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Allies met in Potsdam Germany into a yak in the summer of 1945 the war in Europe

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was over Hitler and Mussolini had decided to become roommates with Satan [Hitler and Mussolini standing with satan]

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and the US was spit polishing the atomic bombs it meant to drop on Japan oh and

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FDR was dead give them hell Harry the Potsdam Conference focused on Germany

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and what to do with it now that it had surrendered the Allies decided that the

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country should be D armed demilitarized and divvied up into American British

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French and Soviet occupation zones there were also some changes made to Poland's

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borders that caused millions of Germans to be uprooted from their homes as for [Finger altering Poland's borders]

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that whole Soviet American friendship thing well it was dead on arrival

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America had the bomb so Truman was pretty firm when it came to negotiating [Truman talking to Stalin]

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at Potsdam and Stalin knew America had the bomb even though the weapon was

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supposed to be a secret so he was pretty firm on his side of the negotiations too

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which meant that in spite of all those years of cooperating in order to bury

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the Axis powers the US Great Britain and the Soviet Union never meant to talk

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about cooperating on post-war reconstruction again but at least they

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knew each other secret crushes and that Soviet Union can totally pull off a side [FDR and Churchill at sleep over and Stalin appears]

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ponytail what do you think is pretty cool

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