Yalta Conference 4-11 Feb 1945🌺 Flashcards
Where was the meeting held by the Big Three?
Yalta, Ukraine.
What country would Russia enter war against, and for what reward?
They would enter war against Japan for southern half of Sakhalin Island and rights in Manchuria.
What country and city would be split in four? Headed by who?
Germany would be split in four, alongside Berlin, and headed by the UK, US, France, and USSR.
What happened to Nazi war criminals?
They would be tried in an international court of justice.
What organisation was to be set up?
United Nations Organisation to maintain peace.
What did the USSR want due to losing 20 million, and what did they want to do with Poland?
They wanted a sphere of influence. They hoped to move their border West, and so move Poland’s border in turn. Churchill forced Roosevelt to, as long as they would not touch Greece.
What did Roosevelt report of the conference to US Congress?
” Never before have the major allies been more closely united.”
Churchill claimed the Soviet Union was becoming a…
‘danger to the free world.’
Which Soviet historian argues Stalin bullied Churchill by urging him to sing the Soviet Russia national anthem to conservatives?
Sergei Kudryashov
What was set up in Poland despite a government in exile?
A communist government was set up in Lublin. Stalin was convinced to accept a coalition in the Lublin ministration with the government in exile in London.
When Roosevelt died in April 1945, why was he criticised? What did Truman do when Molotov visited two weeks after as a result?
He was criticised in 1945 for a soft attitude to communists. When Molotov visited, he was told to adhere to agreements made at Yalta. Molotov claimed Truman was being too harsh, to which Truman claimed if he didn’t give him reason to be, he would not again.
