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| − | 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. |
==Further reading== | ==Further reading== | ||
Revision as of 18:59, May 22, 2007
The Yalta Conference was the meeting in February of 1945, the last year of World War II, between President Franklin Roosevelt, 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.
Further reading
- The Yalta Betrayal, Felix Wittmer, 1953.