feb 5, 1945 - Yalta conference

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Big three conferred at Yalta, a resort town on Black Sea coast of Soviet Union | DECIDED: | 1 | Germany would be divided into occupation zones | 2 | There would be free elections in the liberated countries of Eastern Europe (even though communist Soviet troops controlled this area) | 3 | The Soviets would enter the war against Japan, which they did on Aug 8, 1945- just as Japan was about to surrender | 4 | The Soviets would control the southern half of Sakhalin Island & the Kurile Islands in the Pacific, and would have special concessions in Manchuria | 5 | A new world peace organization (the future UN) would be formed at a conference in San Francisco

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