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The Cold War origins 1941-56Just as the 1960s started swinging and a new US President entered the White House, the Cold War entered its most critical phase, when the world would be pushed to the brink of nuclear war.
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The Yalta Conference, 1945In February 1945, the Big Three – Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin - met again at Yalta in the Crimea region of the USSR. ![Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin meet together at the Yalta conference, shown on the
map. They agree to a post-war settlement and decide Germany’s fate once it had been defeated]()
With an Allied victory looking likely, the aim of the Yalta Conference was to decide what to do with Germany once it had been defeated. In many ways the Yalta Conference set the
scene for the rest of the Cold War in Europe. Outcomes: - Germany would be divided into four zones of occupation with the USSR, Britain, France and the USA each controlling a zone. France had been liberated from Nazi
Germany and was included at the conference partly due to pressure from the French leader, General de Gaulle, but also because Britain wanted a European ally with whom it could share the cost of the post-war
reconstruction of Germany.
- The German capital, Berlin, was
about 100 miles inside the Soviet zone and it, too, was to be divided into four zones, each controlled by one of the Allied powers. Berlin would become a continuing source of tension once the Cold War began in earnest.
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countries freed from Nazi control were to be guaranteed the right to hold free, democratic elections to choose their own governments. This commitment was released as an official joint statement,
the Declaration on Liberated Europe. However, Stalin was offered a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe where
communist ideals would dominate.
- Again, Stalin committed to
joining the war against Japan, once Germany had been defeated. This was important to the Americans who were suffering heavy losses in the Pacific, despite the fact they were gradually pushing back the Japanese.
- All the leaders made a commitment to pursue, and put on trial, suspected Nazi war criminals.
- The Allies agreed to the setting up of the United Nations, an organisation
dedicated to international cooperation and the prevention of war.
Revision tip Berlin was to become a Cold
War flashpoint. Make sure you know the different key events: - What was decided about Berlin at the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences in 1945
- What happened during the Berlin Crisis and the
Berlin Blockade of 1948-9
- What happened when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961
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What promises did Stalin break at Yalta?
Answer and Explanation: The promise Stalin broke at the Yalta Conference was the agreement over free elections in Central and Eastern Europe and their right to democratic governments, most specifically in regards to Poland.
What were the promises the Soviets made at the Yalta conference that they later broke?
At Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan and all three agreed that, in exchange for potentially crucial Soviet participation in the Pacific theater, the Soviets would be granted a sphere of influence in Manchuria following ...
What were the agreements made at the Yalta Conference?
At the Yalta Conference, the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France agreed to split Germany into four zones of occupation after the war.
What did Stalin promise at the Yalta Conference Apush?
Soviet Union
Roosevelt and Churchill put up weak resistance to Stalin's demands once he agreed to participate in the war against Japan, join the United Nations, and promise free elections in these nation states (remember, it was a promise he would later break when he installed communist governments).
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