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==Western betrayal==

==Western betrayal==

[[Image:Yaltaagreement.JPG|right|thumb|500px|Areas agreed to by FDR at Yalta and Teheran for Soviet dominion facilitated by [[Lend-lease]] aid; the white areas constitute the "Free World."]]

[[Image:Yaltaagreement.JPG|right|thumb|500px|Areas agreed to by FDR at Yalta and Teheran for Soviet dominion facilitated by [[Lend-lease]] aid; the white areas constitute the "Free World."]]

The [[United Nations]] plan, which had been agreed to in principle by Soviet Union long before, was no longer an issue. There was the question of voting to be settled and this was done without any difficulty by agreeing in full to Stalin's desires. The formal proposal to hand over eastern [[Poland]] east of the [[Curzon Line]] was made by Roosevelt himself.<ref>''Speaking Frankly'', James F. Byrnes, New York: Harper & Bros., 1947, p. 29.</ref>  In western Poland, Stalin already had a government there representing no one but Stalin. FDR agreed, however, that this provisional government should be "reorganized" to include "democratic leaders from Poles abroad."  Stalin agreed to hold an election, which he said "he could do in a month." The election was not held for 23 months and Poland ended with nothing but Communists in the government <ref>''Speaking Frankly'', Byrnes, op.cit., p. 32.</ref> of a country where they did not represent 10 per cent of the people, while the other elements fled Poland for their lives. To compensate Poland it was agreed to give Poland a part of [[East Prussia]], a totally German land. The Yalta conference was, as it has come to be known in Poland, [[Eastern Europe]], China, and much of the world, the [[Western betrayal]] of democratic allies who had fought for the principals of [[self-determination]].

The [[United Nations]] plan, which had been agreed to in principle by Soviet Union long before, was no longer an issue. There was the question of voting to be settled and this was done without any difficulty by agreeing in full to Stalin's desires. The formal proposal to hand over eastern [[Poland]] (the ''Kresy'') east of the [[Curzon Line]] was made by Roosevelt himself.<ref>''Speaking Frankly'', James F. Byrnes, New York: Harper & Bros., 1947, p. 29.</ref>  In western Poland, Stalin already had a government there representing no one but Stalin. FDR agreed, however, that this provisional government should be "reorganized" to include "democratic leaders from Poles abroad."  Stalin agreed to hold an election, which he said "he could do in a month." The election was not held for 23 months and Poland ended with nothing but Communists in the government <ref>''Speaking Frankly'', Byrnes, op.cit., p. 32.</ref> of a country where they did not represent 10 per cent of the people, while the other elements fled Poland for their lives. To compensate Poland it was agreed to give Poland a part of [[East Prussia]], a totally German land. The Yalta conference was, as it has come to be known in Poland, [[Eastern Europe]], China, and much of the world, the [[Western betrayal]] of democratic allies who had fought for the principals of [[self-determination]].

The [[Angelo-American]]s wanted to divide [[Germany]] into four occupation zones with one zone given to a future [[Western]]-backed French government, although the Soviet Union was still fighting French troops in the German [[SS]] along the [[Vistula front]] as the [[Red Army]] was encroaching upon [[Berlin]]. The role of France in the Second World War, which did more for the German war effort than it ever did to defend itself, and the grace afforded to it by the Angelo-American powers, was one of the first major sticking points in igniting the [[Cold War]] once the fighting ended. French troops had participated in the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, yet Roosevelt had planned to offer a new French government loans and credits for reconstruction.

The [[Angelo-American]]s wanted to divide [[Germany]] into four occupation zones with one zone given to a future [[Western]]-backed French government, although the Soviet Union was still fighting French troops in the German [[SS]] along the [[Vistula front]] as the [[Red Army]] was encroaching upon [[Berlin]]. The role of France in the Second World War, which did more for the German war effort than it ever did to defend itself, and the grace afforded to it by the Angelo-American powers, was one of the first major sticking points in igniting the [[Cold War]] once the fighting ended. French troops had participated in the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, yet Roosevelt had planned to offer a new French government loans and credits for reconstruction.