Yalta Conference

The Allies agreed that international courts would prosecute Nazis for war crimes.

Starlin was to enter into the war against Japan. Soviet/Polish boarder line was at the Curzon Line whereas the German/Polish boarder was at Oder-Neisse. All agreed Poland could have free elections even Starlin which other believed meant democratic elections. They also agreed France could have a zone within defeated Germany. However many of these terms were revisited at the Potsdam Conference

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• the foundation of the world's first real world government, the United Nations.

The Yalta Conference was a conference between the Allies near the end of WWII that debated on the outcome of postwar Europe. The main topic was how to deal with Nazi Germany. The US proposed a plan to split Germany into six separate countries and to have an Allied occupation of Austria. This, obviously, did not come true though. The US also wanted Germany to became a democratic nation.

It wasnt the big 5...It was the big 3...Roosevelt,Churchill,and Stalin

how to defeat Germany

The UUSR pledged to attack Japan within 3 months of German surrender.

The Yalta Conference was a meeting of the leaders of the US, UK, and the Soviet Union, to discuss Europe's postwar reorganization, and reestablish the nations of war-torn Europe.

Poland, was a central focus of the meeting for several reasons.

1.) Poland, especially Eastern Poland, had been the physical site of the dividing line between Germany and the Soviet Union, after WWI. Skirmishes and boarder battles between Germany, and the Soviet Union continued up through early 1939.

2.)Poland had been politically, and physically, the "key" area of division when the Soviet Union had entered negotiations with the United Kingdom, France, Poland, and Romania, to form an alliance against Nazi Germany.

While such negotiations were being made, Poland was not given an active voice or the same power to participate, as the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet. At the same time, Germany had made promises to Poland, for an alliance, which were later abandoned.

3.) As a result, German troops entered Poland in September of 1939, from the North, West, and South, declaring war on the Soviet Union, France, and England. Soviet troops entered Poland, from the east, 16 days after German troops. Polish military, and domestic resources had been nearly obliterated by German troops, and Poland, while refusing to surrender, was "caught" between the German and Soviet troops.

Basically, due to its location, was used as a physical catalyst between Germany and the Soviet Union, yet, was almost "helplessly" in the middle of the two.

3.) By the time the Yalta conference took place, Soviet troops remained in Poland, and occupied Western Poland, as well. It was key strategically, that Soviet troops, remain in at least the east part of Poland, as a defensive measure against possible future attacks from Germany.

4.) Whether Soviet troops could remain in Poland, and if so, where in Poland, were key to the Soviet Union, when negotiations took place at Yalta.

5.) (Stalin) The Soviet Union did feel an incredible amount of remorse for the occupation in Poland, as Poland not only served as the grounds of invasion by Germany, and the Soviet Union but also, Poland had served as a historical corridor for forces attempting to invade Russia.

Read the released papers. Other than that it is opinions.

* Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin agreed to form a United Nations

* How to divide up Berlin between the Allies

* Stalin agreed to enter war against Japan when Germany was defeated

* Free elections in Poland

Three of the topics discussed at the Yalta Conference were: The unconditional surrender of Germany, which was the main priority. Soviet leader Stalin agreed to fight against the Empire of Japan within 90 days of the fall of Germany. Nazi war criminals were to be tracked down and subjected to trial.

agreements concerning soviet territorial demands

As Roosevelt died before the Potsdam conference, Truman, his vice president took over.

Black Sea port of Yalta in February 1945 to formulate allied military strategy and declare an end to German militarism and Nazism.

At the conference of Yalta in the Crimea in February 1945 the big 3 met to discuss several issues facing Europe and the world.

Firstly it was agreed that the USSR would help America defeat Japan, as Hitler was now defeated. However it was never neccassary for the USSR to help as the US had bombed Japan before they got to that point.

Secondly Roosevelt and Churchill allowed Stalin to set up a Communist Government in Poland (however part of this agreement said that they had to have other political parties within this Government; Stalin ignored this and made only a communist Government, this led to tension between the Big three).

Thirdly the big three all said they wanted to work towards democracy in Europe. They said this in the "Declaration on Liberated Europe". However there was problems with this as being from opposite political ideologies, Roosevelt and Churchill had very different ideas on what democracy was compared to Stalin. Roosevelt felt that democracy was having free election in which Candidates win the public votes. Stalin felt that democracy was a Communist Government who controlled industry; he felt that Communism was the only political system that fully looked after the working class.

Fourthly they created the United Nations. This aimed for peace with Europe and was, in effect, a replacement for the League of Nations which had failed during 1930's due to several reasons. The Grand Alliance hoped that this would be more successful.

Finally, the Big Three re-stated the agreement that the USSR should have a 'sphere of influence' on Eastern Europe. A 'sphere of influence' was an area of the world around the USSR where communism was 'respected' i.e. it was the main political system. It was originally decided that the USSR would have a 'sphere of influence' at the Tehran Conference of 1943.

Nothing was really discussed about the fate of Germany at the Yalta Conference. Germany was split into 4 at the Potsdam Conference of July 1945 a few months after Yalta.

Considering the actions Stalin took during the war I believe the cold war was inevitable. He was ruthless toward his own countrymen when he felt they needed to do things differently. For example - he refused food in and people out of the Ukraine during the war. He did not feel those who lived within the Ukraine supported his cause effectively and he literally starved his own. With that kind of man in control - I do not believe that he would have been stopped.

During the Yalta Conference in 1945 it was decided that Germany would divided into 4 zones. It was also during this time when plans to build the Berlin Wall were made. These plans set the Cold War preparations in motion.

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churchill wanted free elections and democratic governments in eastern and central Europe

especially in Poland

(UK)Churchill (USA)Roosevelt and (USSR)Stalin.