Video: 'July 26, 1945 Potsdam Declaration by US, UK, China'

(Thursday, July 26, 1945, 9:30 p.m. CEST; during Potsdam Conference of World War II) — U.S. President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek today issued the Potsdam Declaration, which called upon Imperial Japan to unconditionally surrender, or face “prompt amd utter destruction” (click here for a clip of this event from “American Experience: Truman” at 2:07:39).

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