Yalta Conference

The Yalta Conference (sometimes called the Crimea Conference) was held from 4 to 11 February 1945, a few months before the end of the Second World War in Europe. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Winston Churchill), the President of the United States (Franklin D. Roosevelt) and the Premier of the Soviet Union (Joseph Stalin) met in Crimea and talked about what to do with Germany. The Yalta Conference was important in European history.

Agreements

Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin (in that order)

The allies agreed at Yalta :

Germany would be completely disarmed.
A new world organisation would be set up, the United Nations.
Stalin would join the war against Japan three months after the defeat of Germany.
Germany would be split up into four different pieces (occupation zones), one occupied by France, the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Berlin would also be split up into four different areas
Germans who committed war crimes would be judged and sentenced.
A Soviet-dominated government would be set up in Poland
Eastern Europe would be under Soviet influence.
Free elections would be held in countries free from German rule.
Planning would start on war reparations by Germany and how much money it would owe the other countries.

Soviet, American and British diplomats during the Yalta conference
Yalta American Delegation in Livadia Palace from left to right: Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Maj. Gen. L. S. Kuter, Admiral E. J. King, General George C. Marshall, Ambassador Averell Harriman, Admiral William Leahy, and President F. D. Roosevelt. Livadia Palace, Crimea, RSFSR
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Leaders of the Big Three at the negotiating table at the Yalta conference
Allied-occupied territories (red) on 15 February 1945, four days after the end of the conference
Poland's old and new borders, 1945 – Kresy in light red
The eventual partition of Germany into Allied Occupation Zones: British zone French zone (two exclaves) and beginning in 1947, the Saar Protectorate American zone, including Bremen Soviet zone, later the GDR Polish and Soviet annexed territory
Partition plan from Winston Churchill: North German state South German state, including modern Austria and Hungary West German state
Morgenthau Plan: North German state South German state International zone Territory lost from Germany (Saarland to France, Upper Silesia to Poland, East Prussia, partitioned between Poland and the Soviet Union)
From left to right: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin.