n the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union wanted the communist Lublin regime to control the government, and the United States wanted the noncommunist Polish government-in-exile in London to control the government. The United States and the Soviet Union would not compromise, and tension between them increased. At the end of the conference at Yalta, it was decided that the people freed from Nazi rule would be allowed to set up their governments, Germany would be divided into four zones, the eastern part of Poland would go to Russia so that their defenses can be built up, and Poland would be given land from East Germany as compensation.
             The United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union met again in a conference in Potsdam, Germany in July of 1945. Harry Truman, who had become the United States President after Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage; Churchill; and Stalin
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