The Yalta summit in 1945 with Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin met at Yalta in February 1945 to discuss their joint occupation of Germany and plans for postwar Europe.
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The Yalta Summit, also known as the Crimea Conference and code-named Argonaut, held February 4 - 11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. The three states were represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively. The conference was held near Yalta in Crimea, Soviet Union, within the Livadia, Yusupov, and Vorontsov Palaces.

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The aim of the conference was to shape a post war peace that represented not just a collective security order but a plan to give self-determination to the liberated peoples of post Nazi Europe. The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war torn Europe. However, within a few years, with the Cold War dividing the continent, Yalta became a subject of intense controversy.

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Yalta was the second of three major wartime conferences among the Big Three. It was preceded by the Tehran Conference in November 1943, and was followed by the Potsdam Conference in July 1945. It was also preceded by a conference in Moscow in October 1944, not attended by President Roosevelt, in which Churchill and Stalin had spoken of European Western and Soviet spheres of influence.

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