Video: 'The Potsdam Conference - When the Cold War began'
(Thursday, August 2, 1945, 12:30 a.m. CEST; during Potsdam Conference of World War II) — U.S. President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and Britain’s new prime minister, Clement Attlee, concluded the Potsdam conference this morning after approving the final tripartite communique. Continue reading Potsdam Conference concludes 70 years ago this hour (Aug 2 1945)
Video: 'President Gerald Ford - Remarks in Helsinki' (click here to watch the full video)
(Friday, August 1, 1975, 10:30 a.m EET) — U.S. President Gerald Ford, declaring that the 35-nation Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe held in Helsinki, Finland, will be judged “not by the promises we make but by the promises we keep,” joined leaders of the Soviet Union and 33 other nations today in affirming a broad charter for European security, human rights and East-West contacts.
