U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill (the British Prime Minister) were all influential leaders in their time. While they didn’t always agree and cooperate with each other, they put aside their differences to save the world from a Nazi regime. The Big Three cooperated and planned with each other at the Tehran Conference and the Yalta Conference to strategize attacks on the Japanese and Germans, to form the United Nations, figure out Germany’s division and reparations, and countries’ new boundaries.
The Big Three met first in Iran’s capital, Tehran, where they covered four main problems (Naden and Blue 187-188). They had to make a plan of attack against the Nazis, so FDR planned D-Day with Churchill’s help and Stalin helped by attacking the Nazis. The second issue was if the Soviets would fight Japan in the Pacific. The Allies were losing and if the Soviets hadn’t stepped in they probably would’ve lost that front of the war (Teheran Conference 2505-2506). The next problem the Big Three talked about was how the boundaries of Poland, Germany and the USSR would be set up after the war. FDR liked the idea moving the Soviet border forward, taking parts of Poland, and of course Stalin wanted more territory. They also approved moving Poland’s border farther into Germany (Teheran Conference 2505-2506). They also discussed how they would keep the peace in the future. Because this was the Second World War after only a 21-year gap, Roosevelt wanted a new mediating group to stop another war from ever happening. He called it the “United Nations” (Naden and Blue 187).
The second time FDR, Churchill and Stalin met was the Yalta Conference to talk about four important things (Morris 1739). An...
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After reading William R. Keylor's The Legacy of the Great War, I realized the important events that pertain to the international relations. Until our present day there has not been so many great leaders come together to address issues such as: politics, economics, and social settings in Europe. This is the beginning of the problems in European civilization.
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The two sources Industry, State, and Society in Stalin’s Russia, 1926-1934 by David Shearer and Life and Bitter Waters: Life and Work in Stalin's Russia: A Memoir by Gennady Andreev-Khomiakov and Ann Erickson Healy will be evaluated according to their value, purpose, origin, and limitations.
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“The man who turned the Soviet Union from a backward country into a world superpower at unimaginable human cost (Joseph Stalin).” “Stalin was born into a dysfunctional family in a poor village in Georgia (Joseph Stalin).” Permanently scarred from a childhood bout with smallpox and having a mildly deformed arm, Stalin always felt unfairly treated by life, and thus developed a strong, romanticized desire for greatness and respect, combined with a shrewd streak of calculating cold-heartedness towards those who had maligned him. “He always felt a sense of inferiority before educated intellectuals, and particularly distrusted them (Joseph Stalin).”
...nd facing humiliation. After his death, the Third Reich fell and the fate of Europe was to be decided at the Yalta Conference, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill of Britain, and Joseph Stalin (The Yalta Conference 1945).
During this conference, one thing they could agree on was to take out the Axis Powers. They knew they were a huge threat to all three countries and had to take them down. Here, they discussed their strategies on attacking the powers. They negotiated the change of the Eastern borders by moving German / Polish border to the Oder and Neissc River. This would benefit them more for attacking Europe and Germany. Before they did this, Stalin wanted to take out Japan and have Germany
In conclusion, many soviets citizens appeared to believe that Stalin’s positive contributions to the U.S.S.R. far outweigh his monstrous acts. These crimes have been down played by many of Stalin’s successors as they stress his achievements as collectivizer, industrializer, and war leader. Among those citizens who harbor feelings of nostalgia, Stalin’s strength, authority , and achievement contrast sharply with the pain and suffering of post-revolutionary Russia.
Stalin told to Roosevelt and Churchill during the Yalta meeting, “I want to drink to our alliance.” “In history of diplomacy I know of no such close alliance of the three Great power as this.” and “May it be strong and stable, may we be as frank as possible.”
The main leaders of the Axis Powers were Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito lead going into World War II. The Allied Powers argued with Germany and
Josef Stalin led the U.S.S.R. from the death of Lenin to his own in 1953. Stalin led the Soviets through the betrayal of the Germans in the Nazi-Soviet Pact, he turned back the Nazis on the Eastern front, and brought the U.S.S.R. out of the Second World War as one of the only two superpowers in the world. After the end of the World War Two Stalin spread the Soviet sphere of influence to include East Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Alabania, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.
Roosevelt was able to accomplish his goal of the United Nations at a great price (TheLatinLibrary). After the Yalta Conference when agreements were made public the United States was harshly criticized. Stalin also failed to keep his promises that free election would be held in countries such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria (Britannica). Instead they were turned into communist governments. Two months later Roosevelt died and was believed to have sold out to the Soviets. After the Yalta Conference Stalin also got a spherical influence
During the Conference of the Big Three in Teheran in 1943 the American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill...
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