The Yalta Conference, 1945

Question 1

What did the Big Three (Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill) publish?

Answer 1

The Declaration on Liberated Europe (outlined their plans for post-war Europe

Question 2

What were the agreements in the Declaration? 4

Answer 2

Interim governments in the territories that they liberated
These governments would be representative governments
USSR should have a sphere of influence in EE
UN was to be established in order to ensure world peace

Question 3

How did Stalin interpret the representative governments agreement in the Declaration?

Answer 3

Stalin thought it should be a government that worked on behalf of workers and peasants, so a governments in which the Communist Party played a leading role

Question 4

How did FDR and Churchill interpret the representative governments agreement in the Declaration?

Answer 4

They believed it represented a commitment to set up parliamentary democracy similar to that of Britain or USA

Question 5

Why was the declaration significant and why was this a problem?

Answer 5

It suggested unity between members of the Grand Alliance, but important differences were glossed over

Question 6

Give examples of issues at Yalta that the Big Three had failed to resolve? 2

Answer 6

Exact borders of Germany and Poland

The extent to which the defeated powers should pay reparations