| − | The Yalta Conference was the meeting in February of 1945, the last year of World War II, between President [[Franklin Roosevelt]], [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet]] Premier [[Joseph Stalin]] and British Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]] at Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula in the USSR. They agreed to divide [[Germany]] into occupation zones. They also agreed that free elections would be held in Soviet controlled Eastern Europe, but Stalin never fulfilled this promise. | + | The '''Yalta Conference''' was the meeting in February of 1945, the last year of [[World War II]], between President [[Franklin Roosevelt]], [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet]] Premier [[Joseph Stalin]] and British Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]] at Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula in the USSR. They agreed to divide [[Germany]] into occupation zones. They also agreed that free elections would be held in Soviet controlled Eastern [[Europe]], but Stalin never fulfilled this promise. |