Yalta Conference is the name given to meetings of key
Allied leaders - President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister
Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union -
during World War II. Yalta, a famous Black Sea resort in Ukraine, on the southern coast
of the Crimean Peninsula, along the Black Sea. The conference took place from February 4
to 11, 1945.
The agreements reached by the three leaders at
the conference included the following:
- To accept
the structure of a world peacekeeping organization. This ultimately resulted in
formation of the United Nations - To bring order in Europe
after the war help the defeated countries establish democratic
governments. - To divide Germany into four zones to be
occupied by Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and
France. - To support the Soviet-backed government and hold
free elections in Poland. - To extend the Soviet Union's
territory into Poland. - To force Germany to reimburse the
Soviet Union by way of equipment and other resources to make up for Soviet losses.
Also Soviet Union agreed to join the war
against Japan in return for control of some territories an strategic
ports.
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