The Yalta Conference

What decision did Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin make at the Yalta Conference?

During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world.

Stalin

He wanted to keep Germany divided into occupation zones-areas controlled by Allied military forces-so that Germany would never again threaten the Soviet Union

Churchill and Roosevelt assumed

In time, all the zones would be brought together in a reunited Germany

Big Three

Toasted the defeat of Germany that now seemed uncertain

Stalin promised

"Free and unfettered elections" in Poland and other Soviet-occupied Eastern European countries

Stalin

1. Agreed to join in the war against Japan 2. Agreed to participate in an international conference to take place in April in Sanfranciso

Germany into four zones

1. American 2. British 3. Soviets 4. French

Roosevelt prepared to make concessions to Stalin for two reasons

1. He hoped that the Soviet Union would stand by its commitments to join the war against Japan that was still waging in the Pacific 2. Roosevelt wanted Stalin's support for a new world peace-keeping organization, to be named the United Nations

To pacify Stalin

Roosevelt convinced Churchill to agree to a temporary division of Germany into four zones

The Conference

Roosevelts dream of a United Nations would become a reality