YALTA CONFERENCE

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February 4-11, 1945 the three big powers countries and their heads of the government’s leaders: President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin came to Crimea – Yalta. They were setting a conference that’s aim was discussing after the World War II. Especially they would like to shape a new Europe after the war. The most important thing was structure of the Germany after the war.

The meeting took 8 days and they were practically agreement on specific topics. Conference ended with a Protocol.
First agreement was divided Germany territory in to four ‘part or zones’, first part Britain, second France, third the USSR, and the fourth the USA would occupy Germany after the war.
Second Nazi war criminals must bring to court and Nazi Germany and Its Government was changed and pushed Germans out of Poland.
Third, constructed Poland Provisional Government of National Unity pledged by Stalin to the holding of free and elections not bound by chains as soon as possible and set up a commission to look into restoring after World War II.
At Yalta conference, the negotiations went very much in Stalin's favor; also Stalin wanted to rebuild Port Arthur to be restored with the USSR naval fleet and a port. Manchurian railroads also were to be under control of Soviet-Chinese administration these are still a big opportunity for the USSR to control the all Asia territory.
Stalin gave a commitment to prepare to go to war with the japan. And also these agreements including: Russia would join the war in the Pacific, in return for occupation zones in North Korea and Manchuria. Russia also agreed to join the United Nations.
Although the Conference obviously successful, however, behind the conference, te...

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...No agreement had been reached on the future shape of the United Nations Organization. In May 1945, however, Truman abruptly ended Lend- Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
The Big Three met for their last conference of the war at Potsdam, outside Berlin, in July 1945. The German question dominated the sessions: agreement was reached on the need for the joint occupation and demilitarisation of Germany, but the issue of reparations brought out fiercely opposing views. A complicated agreement was finally reached whereby the Soviet Union would take reparations from its own zone of occupation and also receive 25 per cent of all machinery and industrial plant from the Western zones. In return, the Soviet Union would send to the Western zones food, coal and raw materials to the value of 60 per cent of what it received from the West. The agreement began to unravel within a year.

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