EVENT INFORMATION

17
Juli
1945

Potsdam Declaration calls on Japan to surrender

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📅 17 Juli 1945 📍 Duitsland

The United States, Britain, and China issued the Potsdam Declaration demanding Japan’s surrender and setting out terms for postwar occupation and disarmament. The Soviet Union joined the declaration after entering the war against Japan in August. The declaration’s language did not address the sovereignty claims of Asian peoples under Japanese and European colonial rule.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Harry S. Truman

Winston Churchill

Chiang Kai-shek

Organisaties in dit Evenement

United States

United Kingdom

Republic of China

Soviet Union