The Yalta conference (Feb 1945)

Question 1

What did Roosevelt want going into the Yalta conference?

Answer 1

-cooperation as the basis for lasting post-war settlement, founded on the American concept of democracy

-this was the crux of the issues between the USSR and USA as the USSR didn’t have the same wants for post war Europe-a democratic Eastern Europe and a global peace-keeping organisation that overlooks everything

Question 2

What did Churchill want going into the Yalta conference?

Answer 2

-convinced that Stalin wanted to expand Soviet power in Europe

-the Soviet Union could threaten Britains imperial interests and so England needed a close alliance with the USA

Question 3

What did Stalin want going into the Yalta conference?

Question 4

What came of it?

Answer 4

-Germany and Austria were divided into 4 zones- including Berlin

-UN would be ratified

-declaration on liberated Europe-free elections in liberated countries

-USSR would join pacific war after Germany surrendered

-ussr gains land from Poland:Poland expands north and west into Germany

Question 5

What happened to Poland?

Answer 5

-real government (Warsaw) in exile in London

-Lublin Government (provisional government) set up and run by the communists

-the west wanted the Warsaw Government back in power