Transcript Yalta Conference

10th Euro Studies 4.20.15
Turn in:
 Yalta questions to TII.com
Take out :
 Planner
 Notes
 Note-taking devices
Today’s Learning Objectives:
 I can understand how the
end of WWII contributed to
an increased sense of tension
between “Allied” nations.
Today’s Agenda:
 Yalta debrief
 Potsdam Conference
HW:
 Potsdam Conference
C/R/A with
questions—due to
TII.com by 7:25AM
Yalta Conference
CRIMEA CONFERENCE, UKRAINE
February 1945
Yalta Conference
• 6 Topics Discussed:
1. Want unconditional surrender of
Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan)
2. League of Nations was ineffective—
US, England, Russia, France, China
should form United Nations
(international organization to keep
peace after war)
Yalta Conference
• Topics Discussed:
3. Russia would declare war on
Japan (& help USA invade Japan)
after Germany surrendered
4. Divide Austria, Germany & capital
Berlin into 4 occupied zones
(controlled US, England, France, &
USSR)
Yalta Conference
• Topics Discussed:
5. Roosevelt & Churchill afraid Stalin
would make Eastern Europe
communist after war; wanted Self
Determination (right to choose
democracy or communist) for
Eastern European Countries:
Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
Romania, & Bulgaria
Yalta Conference
6. Stalin agreed to self-determination if
could have part of Poland; Poland—should
have
free
elections
AGREEMENT AT YALTA
• DIVIDE GERMANY INTO FOUR (4)
ZONES TO BE OCCUPIED AFTER THE
WAR BY:
–BRITAIN
–FRANCE
–USA
–USSR
WHAT ELSE DID WE AGREE TO?
• ELECTIONS WILL BE HELD IN THE
COUNTRIES OF EASTERN EUROPE
• GOVERNMENT OF POLAND WILL BE
BOTH COMMUNIST & NONCOMMUNIST
• SET UP THE UNITED NATIONS!!!!!
• STALIN NEVER HELD FREE ELECTIONS IN POLAND
• FDR DIED ONLY TWO (2) MONTHS LATER
• TRUMAN (NEXT PRESIDENT) WOULD ATTEND THE
NEXT POST-WAR CONFERENCE
• HITLER DIES APRIL 30
• GERMANY SURRENDERS MAY 2, 1945
“The SOVIET UNION HAS BEOME A
DANGER TO THE FREE WORLD.”
Churchill wrote this to Roosevelt
after the Yalta Conference.
The leaders of the three countries
would meet one more time:
Potsdam
Potsdam Conference
Please go to my website and open the Potsdam reading…
Take critical reading notes.
SUGGESTION: READ FIRST! Then go to the
questions & back to the reading if needed…
Use the template to answer the remaining
questions—DUE to turnitin.com by Thursday
4/23/15 by 7:25AM