Yalta
The Conference was one of the most important events in history, let alone, this century. It took place from February 4 to February 11, 1945, at , Crimea, a port/resort. The three main individuals at this meeting were Churchill of Great Britain, Roosevelt of the United States and Stalin of the
U.S.S.R, known back then, and now known as Russia.
Roosevelt had two primary goals at , and he secured them both, during the negotiations. One these key objectives was to involve Stalin in the war against Japan. The Americans had lost too many people since the battles fought with Australia against Japan were bloody ones. And, since it was not clear how to defeat the Japanese since they were so ...
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Because Churchill strongly wanted to have certain countries in the British commonwealth accepted into the UN, Roosevelt was unable to deny Stalin the admission of Soviet Ukrainian and Belorussian republics in the UN. Another very important matter on the table of discussions at was Poland. Since Poland was a very large country and situated between Germany and Russia. It was also a very will strategically placed country. So, at the conference it was discussed whether Poland would be allowed to have free elections. Stalin was greatly opposed to having supervised (by the Americans, British and Soviets) election in Poland and so.
Another matter of great importance and Crimea was the reparations to be received from Germany. The Russians wanted a set amount of $$50 million. They also wanted 50% of this money. However, a historian close to Roosevelt, advised him that this would be a bad idea. He believe that �it would open the door to all sorts of deliberations in the future�.
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a telegram to Churchill he stated that �You know, of course that after Germany�s collapse I must bring American troops home as rapidly as transportation problems will permit�(2). So, it came as no surprise to Churchill, when at , FDR stated that American troops will not remain in Germany for more than two years after the war. He later explained in more detail why he made such a decision, and he stated that the American public will be more involved in �world activity� since they now were in a international organization created by them and their troops were back in the country.
Finally, Stalin accepted a declaration of a Liberated Europe (after a few modifications made), on based on an ...
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