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What was the United States' top priority entering the Yalta Conference?
assistance in ending the pacific theater in japan
Josef Stalin's eventual takeover of Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe, can best be explained, historians agree, by understanding that towards the end of World War II, Stalin once again became concerned with world revolution, and his chief foreign policy initiative was spreading communism.
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President Roosevelt entered the Yalta Conference healthier than he had been in several years.
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President Truman entered the Potsdam Conference in a foul state of mind because the Trinity test of the atomic bomb (back on Alamogordo, New Mexico) proved to be a failure.
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President Truman very quickly and quietly accepted the agreement that had existed between Stalin and FDR that allowed Stalin to place a Soviet friendly government in Poland.
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President Truman's hardline, very uncompromising, stance with Stalin was a complete rejection of the advice of Jimmy Byrnes, who wanted Truman to continue the softer tone of relations that President Roosevelt had achieved.
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Russian soldiers, upon victory, showed considerable restraint towards the Nazi soldiers and German resources.
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The "Big Three" agreed, at the Yalta Conference, on a process to grant freedom to nations that were colonized, but, to be sure, the agreements were very vague, especially with the colonies of the United States.
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The Yalta Conference took place in February 1944.
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The Yalta Conference was set at the Red Sea, near Switzerland.
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What was England's top priority entering the Yalta Conference?
maintaining empire
What was Russia's top priority entering the Yalta Conference?
security
Germany officially surrendered on May 7, 1945 - and May 8 is known as V-E Day.
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Harry Truman, having been thrust to the presidency following FDR's death, was inexperienced at foreign policy, and relied heavily on advice from Jimmy Byrnes.
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In return for agreeing to enter the Pacific Theater against Japan, the Russians were promised land that they lost to the Japanese in 1904-1905.
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Josef Stalin, at the Yalta Conference, reaffirmed his agreement to help in the Pacific Theater, agreeing to enter three months after the conclusion of the European Theater.
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Josef Stalin, in an effort to point out a contradiction between the actions and words of the United States and England, compared his actions in Poland to England's actions in Africa, Italy, and Greece.
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Most presidential advisors - leftovers from the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt - advocated a softer approach towards Russia, and even were very unsurprised at Russia's actions in Eastern Europe (understanding Stalin's desire for security), but their advice was largely ignored by President Truman.
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President Roosevelt died two months after the Yalta Conference (April 1945).
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President Roosevelt knew that the agreement reached at Yalta regarding the Polish postwar government was a green light for Stalin to install a Soviet-friendly government, but knew that the negotiating position of the United States and England was diminished because they had waited about two and half years
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The "Big Three" agreed, at the Yalta Conference, on a 20 billion dollar reparations package (i.e. resources taken from Germany to help rebuild France, England, and Russia) that earmarked 10 billion for Russia.
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The "Big Three" agreed, at the Yalta Conference, on a complete destruction of the Nazi government, splitting postwar German into four occupation zones.
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The "Big Three" agreed, at the Yalta Conference, on a very vague provisional government for Poland that would effectively mean Stalin would get to install a Soviet-friendly government in Poland.
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The Potsdam Conference took place in Potsdam, Germany, in July 1945.
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The Soviets, as agreed at Yalta (and since the European Theater ended in May 1945), were scheduled to enter the Pacific Theater in August 1945 - three months before United States would be able to attack mainland Japan.
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The Yalta Conference was the last meeting between President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin.
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The behavior of the Russian soldiers, upon conquering Berlin, only served to exacerbate the perception that a band of barbarians were sacking a civilized peoples.
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