the yalta conference 4-11 february 1945

yalta meeting

• in preparation for the planning of imminent end of the war, stalin,roosevelt and winston churchill met in the crimean city of yalta

winston churchill

• became prime minister in 1940

• he established a working relationship with Stalin but quickly became deeply suspicious of his post war intentions

• Churchill was anxious to ensure unity among the western capitalist powers in the face of what he regarded as a fundamental threat from the Ussr

conference representation

• represented the high point of inter - allied cooperation

• its outcomes appeared to reaffirm the belief that the grand alliance was still alive and well and that its members were committed to a lasting consensus in international relations in the post war world

• however, the objectives of the key players weren’t particularly in line

east-west objectives at Yalta : Roosevelt and Churchill

• collective security founded on the UN

• long term cooperation with the Ussr

• the right to national self -determination and no spheres of influence

• Germanys reconstruction and re education as a democratic nation

• world economic reconstruction through the creation of the imf and the world bank

east-west objectives at Yalta : Stalin

• the Ussr to be in control of its own destiny

• cooperation with the Anglo-Americans

• the ussr’s security guaranteed through soviet spheres of influence in Europe

• germany to remain weak for the indefinite future

• economic reconstruction for the ussr -mainly at germanys expense

agreements at Yalta

• Germany would be divided into four zones , each administrated by an allied power - these were to be the USA, the Ussr , the uk and France

• berlin would be similarly divided

• the united nations organisation would be formally ratified

• Ussr would gain land from Poland and Poland would be expanded into the north and west

• a declaration on liberated Europe should be created

the declaration on liberated Europe

• the three governments will jointly assist the people in any European liberated sate or former axis state in Europe where, in their judgement conditions require ,

• A- to establish conditions of internal peace

• B- to carry out emergency relief measures for the relief of distressed peoples

• C- to form interim governmental authorities broadly representative of all democratic elements in the population and pledged to the earliest possible establishment through free elections of governments responsive to the will of the people and

• D- to facilitate where necessary the holding of such elections