Which conference decided on the postwar occupation of Germany and the plan for the United Nations?

• A. The Potsdam Conference
• B. The Tehran Conference
• C. The Yalta Conference
• D. The San Francisco Conference

Answer: (C)

This question tests how wartime conferences shaped the immediate postwar world, especially Germany and the new international order. At the Yalta Conference in February 1945, the leaders agreed that Germany would be divided into four Allied occupation zones under Allied supervision, a plan that would guide how Germany would be governed, demilitarized, and rebuilt after the war. They also took a major step toward creating the United Nations, endorsing its basic structure with a General Assembly and a Security Council, which would coordinate international security and peacekeeping efforts. Other meetings touched on parts of this, but Yalta is the one where both key decisions—how Germany would be occupied postwar and how the international body to prevent future wars would be formed—came together in the same discussions.