Transcript Yalta Conference

Yalta Conference
CRIMEA CONFERENCE, UKRAINE
February 1945
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: JULY 1945
• Truman replaces FDR
• Churchill gets voted out of Office
• Stalin remains
–Intent of seeking reparations and as much
as they can get from Germany.
• Agreements:
-Four zones of occupation in Germany
-Bring Nazi War Criminals to trial.
DISAGREEMENTS
• ALLIES DID NOT AGREE TO
–HOW TO DIVIDE GERMANY
–THE AMOUNT OF REPARATIONS
GERMANY SHOULD PAY
–SOVIET POLICY IN EASTERN
EUROPE
• During 1946-47, Stalin made sure that
Communist governments came to
power in all the countries of Eastern
Europe.
• CALLED: SALAMI TACTICS
• The Communist description of this
process was “slicing salami,” gradually getting rid of all opposition.
WHAT DID RUSSIA TAKE?
• A. Albania (1945)- the Communists took power after the war
without opposition
• B. Bulgaria (1945)- a left-wing coalition gained power in 1945;
the Communists then executed the leaders of all other parties.
• C. Poland (1947)- a coalition government took power in 1945,
but the Communists forced the non-Communist leaders into
exile.
• D. Hungary (1947)
• E. Romania (1945-1947)- a left-wing government coalition was
elected in 1945 and the Communists gradually took control.
• F. Czechoslovakia (1945-1947)- a left-wing government
coalition was elected in 1945. In 1948 the Communists
banned all other parties and killed their leaders.
• G. East Germany (1949)- the Russians turned their zone of
Germany into the German Democratic Republic in 1949.
HOW DID THE REST OF THE
ALLIES REACT?
• 5 MARCH 1946, Winston Churchill
–‘a shadow had fallen on Easter Europe,
which was now cut off from the free
world by ‘an iron curtain.’ Behind that
line, he said, the people of Easter
Europe were ‘subject to Soviet
influence…totalitarian control [and]
police governments.’
EUROPE: END OF WWII 1945
SOVIET DOMINATION OF EASTER
EUROPE: 1946
WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS
MEANS?
ASSIGNMENT: PARAGRAPH
• QUESTION:
– Was the Yalta Conference a success or a
failure in promoting future world peace?
– INSTRUCTIONS:
• Take a Stand
• Support your view with specific
examples from your notes or text.
• Use a core democratic value in support.
• Give an opposing point of view
• Conclude.