Tensions at Yalta

Who was in the Grand Alliance?

Britain, USA and the USSR

Who did Western powers invade in 1944?

Nazi-occupied France

Who did Soviet invade in August 1944?

Poland

What fact was Western conscious of?

Many Eastern European states had been liberated from Nazi occupation by the USSR

What was Roosevelt committed to?

Post-war reconstruction

Who met in the Yalta conference?

Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill

What did the conference represent?

High point of inter-allied cooperation

What were Roosevelt/ Churchills objectives?

Collective security founded on the UN

Long-term cooperation with the USSR

Right to national self-determination and no spheres of influence

Germany’s reconstruction and re-education as a democratic nation

World economic reconstruction through creation of the IMF and the world bank

What were Stalin’s objectives?

USSR to be in control of its own destiny

Cooperation with the Anglo-Americans

Security through spheres of influence

Germany remain weak

Economic reconstruction for the USSR- at Germany’s expense

What was agreed at Yalta?

Germany divided into 4 zones- each administered by an allied power

Berlin similarly divided

UN organisation formally ratified

USSR gain land from Poland and Poland expansion to North and west

Declaration on Liberated Europe created