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7.3: The Yalta Conference

The Yalta Conference (World War II)

Yalta Conference (reference source)

  • meeting of FDR, Churchill, and Stalin in Yalta near the end of the war

  • Western front: Allies had liberated France + Belgium, threatened German border

  • Eastern front: Soviets had driven back Germans in Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania

  • location of the conference put Stalin at an advantage — he had claimed that his doctors had prevented him from traveling far

  • agreements/conclusions reached

  • Soviet involvement in the Pacific

  • if the USSR helped out in the war in the Pacific, it would regain the Japanese territory it had lost during the Russo-Japanese war

  • the United States would grant diplomatic recognition of Mongolia as an independent nation from China

  • Division of Germany

  • after surrender, it would be split into four post-war occupation zones (one controlled by the US, Britain, France, and the USSR) → same with Berlin

  • Charles deGaulle wasn't invited to the Conference; Stalin only agreed to give France a portion if it was taken from Britain/the US'

  • Germany would be completely demilitarized and take partial responsibility for post-war reparations

  • Eastern European affairs

  • USSR will not return previously annexed territory to Poland → Germany had used it to invade Russia too many times

  • did allow limited free elections to take place in Poland, a promise that was swiftly broken

  • USSR vows to permit free elections in all now-liberated Eastern European territories (ie. Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria), but these nations must be on good terms with Russia

  • formation of the United Nations

  • USSR will participate in UN

  • basis laid for UN through 1941 Atlantic Charter

  • finalize post-war borders after the war's official end

7.3: The Yalta Conference

The Yalta Conference (World War II)

Yalta Conference (reference source)

  • meeting of FDR, Churchill, and Stalin in Yalta near the end of the war

  • Western front: Allies had liberated France + Belgium, threatened German border

  • Eastern front: Soviets had driven back Germans in Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania

  • location of the conference put Stalin at an advantage — he had claimed that his doctors had prevented him from traveling far

  • agreements/conclusions reached

  • Soviet involvement in the Pacific

  • if the USSR helped out in the war in the Pacific, it would regain the Japanese territory it had lost during the Russo-Japanese war

  • the United States would grant diplomatic recognition of Mongolia as an independent nation from China

  • Division of Germany

  • after surrender, it would be split into four post-war occupation zones (one controlled by the US, Britain, France, and the USSR) → same with Berlin

  • Charles deGaulle wasn't invited to the Conference; Stalin only agreed to give France a portion if it was taken from Britain/the US'

  • Germany would be completely demilitarized and take partial responsibility for post-war reparations

  • Eastern European affairs

  • USSR will not return previously annexed territory to Poland → Germany had used it to invade Russia too many times

  • did allow limited free elections to take place in Poland, a promise that was swiftly broken

  • USSR vows to permit free elections in all now-liberated Eastern European territories (ie. Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria), but these nations must be on good terms with Russia

  • formation of the United Nations

  • USSR will participate in UN

  • basis laid for UN through 1941 Atlantic Charter

  • finalize post-war borders after the war's official end

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