Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Yalta Conference, Feb 1945
- Who Attended?
- Stalin (Soviet Leader)
- Roosevelt (US President
- Churchill (GB PM)
- What Agreed
- Soviet union enter wat
against Japan once
Germany surrendered
- Divide Germany into 4
zones: US,GB,FR & Soviet
- Divide Berlin into 4 zones in the same way
- Hunt down and try Nazi criminals in
an international court of justice
- Allow countries that have been
liberated from occupation by
German army to have free
elections and choose their gov't.
- Join United Nations
Organisation to maintain peace
once war ended,
- Easter Europe - a Soviet 'sphere of influence'
- Differences
- How much Germany was to pay in reparations.
Stalin wanted higher than Churchill/Roosevelt.
Decision delayed for next conference.
- POLAND - Stalin wanted the Polish/German
border to be further to the West than the
Western Allies. Stalin also wanted a 'friendly'
Polsih gov't so the his country would have
some protection from Germany. Western
powers feared a Soviet-controlled government.
They persuaded Stalingto allow free-elections
in Poland