Research Paper on:
Elected Leaders, Decisions, and the Economy

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This was an economically related decision and will be explained by the writer. Other economic decisions are made by elected leaders and go through the Supreme Court. This  too will be explained as far as the power of governmental accountability. THE YALTA CONFERENCE and POTSDAM AGREEMENT The Potsdam Agreement and the Yalta Conference decided effectively how Germany  should be treated in defeat, outlining the following items. First, it assured the total disarmament and demilitarization of Germany. Second it saw to the dissolution of the National  Socialist party and the removal of all of its members from public office the bringing to trial the war criminals. Third there was democratization, and fourth it called for  the decentralization of the German administration. There were also economic decisions related to an embargo on the manufacture of armaments. There was the dismantling of the manufacturing  plants. Peaceful industry was promoted. There was allied control of the economy. Reconstruction was listed as well as treating Germany as an economic entity and last there  was the payment of reparations. In regard to the territorial changes it was decreed, but not settled to, the fact that north-east Prussia should be ceded to the USSR;  other territories east of the Oder-Neisse Line should be placed under Polish administration, and that the German population should be driven out of Eastern Europe and the German eastern territories  in an orderly and humane fashion (Bedurftig 47). Two and one half million Polish people moved into the German territories of southeast Prussia while the Germans were driven out.  Before and after the Potsdam Conference, a total of twelve million people moved out of Eastern Germany, southeast Europe and into West Germany, and four and one half million moved