Yalta Conference

The Yalta Conference was a World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, held from February 4 to 11, 1945, to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. The conference was attended by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, and aimed to shape a postwar peace that represented not only a collective security order but also a plan to give self-determination to the liberated peoples of Europe. The conference was preceded by the Tehran Conference in November 1943 and was followed by the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, and it was also preceded by a conference in Moscow in October 1944. The conference resulted in the division of postwar Europe, with the Soviet Union dominating Eastern Europe and the Western Allies dominating Western Europe. The conference was a subject of intense controversy, particularly due to the exclusion of French leader General Charles de Gaulle and the division of Europe.learn more on wikipedia