Yalta conference

Question 1

Where did it take place?

Answer 1

In Yalta near the Black Sea.

Question 2

What were the dates?

Answer 2

4th - 11th February 1945.

Question 3

Who were present?

Answer 3

The same “Big Three” that were present in Tehran.

Question 4

What were it’s aims?

Answer 4

To make decisions to tie off loose ends about the war and clean up the mess that was created around the world.

Question 5

Name the agreements?

Answer 5

All agreed on five key points:

1: Stalin agreed to send Russian troops to join Americans once Hitler had been defeated
2: Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to a communist government in Poland
3: They created the “Declaration of Liberated Europe” which committed the USSR, Britain and America to work for democracy in Europe
4: The Allies created the UN, an organisation committed to maintaining worldwide peace.
5: They restated their agreement that the USSR should have a “Sphere of influence” in Eastern Europe.

Question 6

Name the disagreements?

Answer 6

Despite their percepted unity, cracks began to form in the Big Three.
They disagreed on idea of democracy in Europe. Roosevelt believed democracy meant a number of political parties competing to win the people’s support.
Stalin believed that democracy basically meant communism as apparently only communism represented working people’s rights.
Conference was only a partial success because of Roosevelt’s readiness to compromise with Stalin.