Its current boundaries were deterimined during the colonial period by the Conference of Berlin and the French, who ruled Guinea until 1958.

At the Yalta Conference during World War II, the Allies ( the U. S., Britain, and the Soviet Union ) agreed on dividing a defeated Germany into occupation zones, and on dividing Berlin, the German capital, among the Allied powers as well.

The Berlin Conference ( 1884 ) headed by Otto von Bismarck that regulated European colonization in Africa during the New Imperialism period

In fact, it was Bismarck himself who helped initiate the Berlin Conference of 1885.

Between 1884 and 1885, European nations met at the Berlin West Africa Conference to discuss the partitioning of Africa.

* 1942 – World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the " Final Solution to the Jewish Question ".

The Berlin Conference ( 1884 – 85 ) established regulations for the acquisition of African colonies ; in particular, it protected free trade in certain parts of the Congo basin.

( In some older documents it is also referred to as the Berlin Conference of the Three Heads of Government of the U. S. S. R., U. S. A., and U. K .) Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.

* United States Department of State Foreign relations of the United States: diplomatic papers: the Conference of Berlin ( the Potsdam Conference ) 1945 Volume I Washington, D. C .: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1945

* United States Department of State Foreign relations of the United States: diplomatic papers: the Conference of Berlin ( the Potsdam Conference ) 1945 Volume II Washington, D. C .: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1945

* Agreements of the Berlin ( Potsdam ) Conference

In the Three Power Conference of Berlin ( formal title of the Potsdam Conference ) from 17 July to 2 August 1945, they agreed to and adopted the Protocol of the Proceedings, August l, 1945, signed at Cecilienhof Castle in Potsdam.

In the Potsdam Agreement ( Berlin Conference ) the Allies ( UK, USSR, USA ) agree:

Already during the Potsdam Conference, on 30 July 1945, the Allied Control Council was constituted in Berlin to execute the Allied resolutions ( the " 5D's "):

* Agreements of the Berlin ( Potsdam ) Conference

The period leading up to the Berlin Conference on Africa saw a rush by the major European powers to increase their control of the African continent.

In the late 19th century, after the Berlin Conference, European powers began the Scramble for Africa, which inspired the Dervish leader Mohammed Abdullah Hassan to rally support from across the Horn of Africa and begin one of the longest colonial resistance wars ever.

At the Berlin Conference of 1885, the fact that Kigoma had been established and supplied from Zanzibar and Bagamoyo led to the inclusion of East Africa into the territory of the Conventional Basin of the Congo, to Belgium's advantage.

A debate launched in 1961 by Adorno and Karl Popper, later published as the Positivist Dispute in German Sociology, arose out of disagreements at the 1959 14th German Sociology Conference in Berlin.

The first UNFCCC Conference of Parties took place in 28 March-7 April 1995 in Berlin, Germany.

Two criticisms of this generally admirable and fascinating book involve the treatment of wartime diplomacy which is jagged at the edges -- there is no mention of the Potsdam Conference or the Morgenthau Plan.

Clement Attlee ( left ) with President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the 1945 Potsdam Conference.

Attlee also attended the later stages of the Potsdam Conference in the company of Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin.

Almost all Germans who returned or remained were expelled as the city was annexed by the Soviet Union and ceded to Poland in spring 1945, a decision by Stalin with full consent of the western Allies in the Potsdam Conference.

Germany defeated: On the basis of the Potsdam Conference, the Allies jointly occupied Germany west of the Oder – Neisse line.

At the Potsdam Conference, Germany was divided into four military occupation zones by the Allies and did not regain independence until 1949.

These governments argue that the expulsion of Germans and related border changes were not enacted by the Polish or Czech governments, but rather were ordered by the Potsdam Conference.

Some hotels have gained their renown through tradition, by hosting significant events or persons, such as Schloss Cecilienhof in Potsdam, Germany, which derives its fame from the Potsdam Conference of the World War II allies Winston Churchill, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin in 1945.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, President of the United States | U. S. President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945. At the Potsdam Conference from July to August 1945, though Germany had surrendered months earlier, instead of withdrawing Soviet forces from Eastern European countries, Stalin had not moved those forces.

After the defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II, Liegnitz and all of Silesia east of the Neisse river was transferred to Poland following the Potsdam Conference in 1945.

The region came under Polish rule at war's end in the Potsdam Conference.

Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman meeting at the Potsdam Conference on 18 July 1945.

Clement Attlee, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945

The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945.

In addition, it was at the Potsdam Conference that Truman became aware of possible complications elsewhere, when Stalin objected to Churchill's proposal for an early allied withdrawal from Iran, ahead of the agreed upon schedule set at the Tehran Conference.

However, the Potsdam Conference marks the first and only time Truman would ever meet Stalin in person.

* Truman and the Potsdam Conference

But he rejects, perhaps a little too sweepingly, the theory that disloyal and pro-Communist influences may have contributed to the policy of appeasing Stalin which persisted until after the end of the war and reached its high point at the Yalta Conference in February, 1945.

* 1945 – Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.

Two supplementary meetings were also held during this period: a Commonwealth Statesmen's meeting to discuss peace terms in April 1945, and a Commonwealth Economic Conference in 1952.

The First Session of the FAO Conference was held in the Chateau Frontenac at Quebec, Canada, from 16 October to 1 November 1945

* 1945 – World War II: The Yalta Conference between the " Big Three " ( Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin ) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.

On 11 February 1945, at the conclusion of the Yalta Conference, the United States and United Kingdom signed a Repatriation Agreement with the Soviet Union.

To compensate Poland for the USSR's annexation of its eastern provinces, the Allies provisionally established Poland's post-war western border at the Oder – Neisse line at the Yalta Conference ( 1945 ).

At the 1945 Yalta Conference, the Allied Powers agreed to create a new body to supplant the League's role ; this was to be the United Nations.

The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) is an international organization that was created on July 22, 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference and came into existence on December 27, 1945 when 29 countries signed the Articles of Agreement.

The Big Three: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President of the United States | U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference, February 1945.

Prime Minister Josip Broz Tito met with the president of the Bishops ' Conference of Yugoslavia, Aloysius Stepinac on 4 June 1945, two days after his release from imprisonment.

In accordance with agreement reached at the Kandy Conference in September 1945, the Tatmadaw was reorganised by incorporating the British Burma Army and the Patriotic Burmese Force.

After the Second World War the area was annexed by Poland, this came about as a direct result of the Allied Powers agreement on the realignment of states in Eastern Europe reached at the Yalta Conference in February 1945.

* Yalta Conference, 4 to 11 February 1945