The Yalta Conference February 1945

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The Yalta ConferenceFebruary 1945

• Goals Outcomes

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                                              Yalt
a 1945 Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin.
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What they Wanted
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Stalin (USSR)

• Soviet Security
• Dismantle Germany
• Buffer Zone (spheres of influence closed
  markets)
• Reparations
• Support for Rebuilding the Soviet Economy

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Churchill (UK)

• Protection of Its Empire (closed market)
• Support for Rebuilding the British Economy
• The Creation of a US/Britain Mini-Alliance
• The Re-establishment of a Democratic Poland

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Roosevelt (USA)

• Help Against Japan
• Superpower Status
• International Expansion of US Economic Concerns
  (open markets)
• International Organization

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What they agreed to
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The United Nations

• The Creation of the United Nations, and most
  importantly, the Security Council, made up of the
  Big Three and eventually China and France.

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Declaration on Liberated Europe

• Each agreed, in principle, to a declaration of a
  free Europe where states of Europe were to
  solve by democratic means their pressing
  political and economic problems.

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Dismemberment of Germany

• The United Kingdom, the US, and the USSR agreed
  to split up and occupy Germany.
• The US and UK would eventually cut France in on
  their share of German responsibility.

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Reparations

• Money (from Germany) would go to rebuilding the
  countries who had suffered most from the war.
• An initial amount of 20 billion was set as a
  starting point for negotiations.

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Poland

• Because Poland had been liberated by the Soviets,
  the pro-Soviet government they had installed
  would stay in place.
• Some members of the original Polish Government,
  which had fled to England, would be invited to
  participate until future democratic elections.

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Japan

• It was agreed that, within 2-3 months of the
  termination of war in Europe, the USSR would
  enter the war against Japan.

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Potsdam, July 1945