Yalta Conference

The Yalta Conference of 4-11 February 1945 was a meeting of the 'Big Three' Allied leaders: President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Russian Premier Joseph Stalin. The conference, held in the Livadia Palace in Yalta in Crimea, decided the fate of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan after the expected and imminent Allied victory in the Second World War (1939-45). The decisions taken at the Yalta Conference, although not all enforced, redrew the political map of Europe and Northeast Asia. Western powers thought that Stalin later broke some of the Yalta agreements, particularly regarding free elections in states like Poland, and this perception coloured US-Soviet relations for decades to come as the two states entered the Cold War.