feb 4, 1945 - Yalta Conference-
Second wartime meeting of World War II
with Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
and Joseph Stalin. The three leaders began
making conditions for Germany's surrender
and making post-war world.
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6 Important Facts:
1.) The leaders agreed on Germany's unconditional surrender and to set up 4 zones of occupation to be run by the US, USSR, Great Britain, and France.
2.) They scheduled another meeting in April for the creation of the United Nations in San Francisco.
3.) Stalin agreed to permit free elections in Eastern Europe and to enter the Asian war against Japan because he was promised the return of lands that the Soviet Union lost to Japan in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
4.) Yalta became controversial after Soviet-American wartime cooperation degenerated into the cold war.
5.)Stalin broke his promise of free elections in Eastern Europe and implemented governments that were controlled by the Soviet Union.
6.) The American critics claimed Roosevelt, who died two months after Yalta, had sold out to the Soviets.
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