Yalta Conference
World History
U.S. History
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The Yalta Conference
- The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea.
- Yalta was the second of three wartime conferences among the Big Three.
- The Yalta conference was a crucial turning point in the Cold War.
- Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin during the Yalta Conference.
- Yalta Conference in February 1945 with (from left to right) Winston Churchill, Franklin D.
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Yalta and the Postwar World
- Convened in 1945, the Yalta Conference brought together Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to discuss the postwar reorganization of Europe.
- The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference, was held February 4–11, 1945 in the Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea.
- It was one of the three major wartime meetings of Allies Powers, together with the Tehran Conference in 1943 and the Potsdam Conference in July/August 1945.
- The Yalta Conference was led by the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D.
- Analyze the controversies of the Yalta Conference, and the individual agendas of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.
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Roosevelt's Fourth Term
- The most important development of Roosevelt's final terms was representing the United States at the Yalta Conference, held February 4–11, 1945 in the Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea.
- The President left the Yalta Conference on February 12, 1945, flew to Egypt and boarded the USS Quincy operating on the Great Bitter Lake near the Suez Canal.
- When Roosevelt returned to the United States, he addressed Congress on March 1 about the Yalta Conference, and many were shocked to see how old, thin and frail he looked.
- In March 1945, he sent strongly worded messages to Stalin accusing him of breaking his Yalta commitments over Poland, Germany, prisoners of war and other issues.
- On March 29, 1945, Roosevelt went to the Little White House at Warm Springs, Georgia, to rest before his anticipated appearance at the founding conference of the United Nations.
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Yalta's Legacy
- Yalta's legacy was one of broken promises and increased suspicion between the two emerging superpowers.
- Churchill defended his actions at Yalta in a three-day Parliament army debate starting February 27, 1945, which ended in a vote of confidence.
- During the debate, many MPs openly criticized Churchill, passionately voiced loyalty to Britain's Polish allies, and expressed deep reservations about Yalta.
- Following Yalta, when Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov expressed worry that the Yalta Agreement's wording might impede Stalin's plans, Stalin responded "Never mind.
- Predict how the broken promises and emerging suspicions of the Yalta Conference would lead to the Cold War.
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The Potsdam Conference
- In the five months since the Yalta Conference, a number of changes had taken place which would greatly affect the relationships between the leaders.
- Truman and his advisers saw Soviet actions in Eastern Europe as aggressive expansionism which was incompatible with the agreements Stalin had committed to at Yalta the previous February.
- Division of Germany and Austria respectively into four occupation zones (earlier agreed in principle at Yalta), and the similar division of each capital, Berlin and Vienna, into four zones.
- Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, circa 28 July - 1 August 1945
- Analyze the relations between the Allied nations at the Potsdam Conference
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Converging Military Fronts
- The former conference determined the post-war return of Japanese territory, while the latter included agreement that the Western Allies would invade Europe in 1944 and that the Soviet Union would declare war on Japan within three months of Germany's defeat.
- On 4 February, U.S., British, and Soviet leaders met for the Yalta Conference.
- On 11 July, the Allied leaders met in Germany at the Potsdam Conference.
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The Defeat of Japan
- The Soviets, meanwhile, were preparing to attack the Japanese, in fulfillment of their promises to the United States and the United Kingdom made at the Tehran and Yalta Conferences.
- The leaders of the major Allied powers met at the Potsdam Conference from July 16 to August 2, 1945 .
- Late in the evening of August 8, 1945, in accordance with Yalta agreements but in violation of the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and soon after midnight on August 9, 1945, it invaded the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.
- The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945.
- Explain how the bombing of Hiroshima and the Soviet Union's invasion of Machukuo led to the surrender of Emperor Hirohito and summarize the negotiations and final outcome of the Potsdam Conference
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War Aims and Strategy
- The Big Three met again major war conference in Yalta (sometimes called the Crimea Conference), held from February 4 to 11, 1945.
- Within a few years, with the Cold War dividing the continent, Yalta became a subject of intense controversy.
- The outcome of Yalta focused on the post-war order.
- The Conference decided on the post-war fate of Indochina, Poland, and Germany.
- Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting at the Tehran Conference in 1943.
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Origins of the Cold War
- A series of events during and after World War II exacerbated tensions, including the Soviet-German pact during the first two years of the war leading to subsequent invasions, the perceived delay of an amphibious invasion of German-occupied Europe, the western allies' support of the Atlantic Charter, disagreement in wartime conferences over the fate of Eastern Europe, the Soviets' creation of an Eastern Bloc of Soviet satellite states, western allies scrapping the Morgenthau Plan to support the rebuilding of German industry, and the Marshall Plan.
- Several postwar disagreements between western and Soviet leaders were related to their differing interpretations of wartime and immediate post-war conferences.
- At the February 1945 Yalta Conference, they could not reach firm agreements on crucial postwar questions like the occupation of Germany and postwar reparations from Germany.
- At the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, the Allies met to decide how to administer the defeated Nazi Germany.
- President Harry Truman and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945
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The Tehran Conference
- The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D.
- It closely followed the Cairo Conference which had taken place on 22–26 November 1943, and preceded the 1945 Yalta and Potsdam conferences.
- The conference was to convene at 16:00 on 28 November 1943.
- Despite accepting the above arrangements, Stalin dominated the conference.
- Turkey's president conferred with Roosevelt and Churchill at the Cairo Conference in November 1943, and promised to enter the war when it was fully armed.