The Yalta Conference - Chase Hansen

The Yalta Conference - February 1945

• The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• The leaders agreed to require Germany’s unconditional surrender and to set up in the conquered nation four zones of occupation to be run by their three countries and France
• Stalin also agreed to permit free elections in Eastern Europe and to enter the Asian war against Japan
• They scheduled another meeting for April in San Francisco to create the United Nations
• Yalta became controversial after Soviet-American wartime cooperation degenerated into the cold war
•  Stalin broke his promise of free elections in Eastern Europe and installed governments dominated by the Soviet Union
• Then American critics charged that Roosevelt, who died two months after the conference, had “sold out” to the Soviets at Yalta