Yalta Flashcards
What leaders were there and what country did they come from?
Stalin [USSR]
Roosevelt [USA]
Churchill [UK]
What does Stalin want?
Keep the territory taken from Poland.
Needs Poland to be friendly.
Security = important
What did Roosevelt want?
Poland = capitalist
Democracy in Europe
Remain on friendly terms
What did Churchill want?
Poland = not in soviet control
Don’t trust Stalin
Declaration on liberated Europe
Each liberated country to have an emergency government.
Free elections
Poland
Borders altered - USSR gained a huge amount of land
Promised land taken from Germany
Free elections
Lublin government to included London poles.
Prisoners of war [POW]
POW held by UK and USA to be sent back to USSR.
ABOUT 1000 OF THEM WERE EXECUTED AND MANY MORE IMPRISONED
Division of Germany
To include a french zone as well as British American and soviet zone
When did Yalta happen?
February 1945
