ibiblio.org provides the actual text of the Potsdam Declaration, the tripartite agreement signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Soviet Russia concerning conquered countries.

A wealth of information about the city, facts & figures, its history, culture, geography, economy, sights, tourism, sports, and free time activity.

The Potsdam Conference was a wartime summit meeting whose purpose was to clarify and implement the terms for the end of WW2 that had been agreed at the Yalta Conference. It began on July 17, 1945, and ended on August 2, 1945.

Read the speech President Harry Truman gave to the American public upon his return from the Potsdam Conference in August, 1945, following the surrender of Germany.

Short tour of the Museum of the Thirty Years' War. The discussion guides you through the seven floors of the museum with a description of the reason why that particular part of the war is important.

Historian Michael Beschloss discusses Harry S. Truman's role in the Potsdam Conference and examines how his decisions there paved the way for the Cold War. (December 2002)

This site offers a comprehensive list of primary source documents from Harry S. Truman regarding the Potsdam Conference and decision to use atomic weapons.

The National Portrait Gallery explores presidendtial actions in regard to the Cold War. Click on Harry Truman to see what actions and decisions he made during his term of office. Read about his meeting with Joseph Stalin at Potsdam, the...

A map of Berlin, Spandau, Potsdam, and the vicinity in 1903, showing cities and towns, railroads, rivers, and lakes. The map is color-coded to show urban, rural, and forested areas.

With 500 ha of parks and 150 buildings constructed between 1730 and 1916, Potsdam's complex of palaces and parks forms an artistic whole, whose eclectic nature reinforces its sense of uniqueness. It extends into the district of...

Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz

Potsdamer Platz (Berlin)

Potsdam - Russian Town (Berlin)

Potsdam - Nauener Tor (Berlin)

Read a portion of President Truman's diary where he reflected on his first meeting with Soviet Marshall Joseph Stalin just before the conference at Potsdam. In addition, there are photographs of Truman with Stalin and the desk Truman...

This site from the Library of Congress discusses the progress of World War II, and the nature of the postwar settlement at conferences in Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam.

A discussion of ultraviolet light and its interaction with the atmosphere. Describes the UV detectors on a spacecraft which are used to study the UV light emissions from astronomical bodies.

An image of "The Berlin-Potsdam Railway", created by Adolph Von Menzel in 1847 (Oil on canvas, 43 x 52 cm).

An image of "In the Palm House in Potsdam", created by Karl Blechen from 1832-34 (Oil on canvas, 64 x 56 cm).

This site gives a truly fabulous view of all the sites to see in Berlin, Germany. Click on the thumbnail pictures and you are directed quickly to full panoramic pictures that you can control. The site includes such places as the...

[Archived Content] An article about the USS Augusta, a ship which transported President Truman to and from the Potsdam Conference.

This Mount Holyoke college site provides the text of Douglas J. Macdonald's "Communist Bloc Expansion in the Early Cold War: Challenging Realism, Refuting Revisionism."

Original radio broadcast announcing the end of World War II after the surrender of Japan, and the jubilation that followed as crowds in cities across the United States celebrated in the streets.

A very easy-to-read biographical sketch of Harry S. Truman. Includes suggestions for further reading.