The Cold War Yalta

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The Cold WarYalta The Division of Germany

• By Calvin Yong
• May 12th, 2004
• Sweeney Modern World History 3B

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Yalta Conference

• As World War II came to an end in February of
  1945, three of the most powerful leaders came
  together to decide what to do with post war
  Germany. They aimed for something similar that
  the effect desired from Wilson's 14 points, an
  agreement that would be able to maintain peace
  amongst the world. Despite the distrust that
  existed between them, they agreed on some
  important matters.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
AT THE YALTA CONFERENCE
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Yalta Accomplishments

• Stalin agreed to commit to fighting Japan once
  Germany had been defeated.
• Decision to hunt down those who helped commit the
  genocide and punish them for their crimes.
• Countries that were liberated would be allowed to
  hold elections for their own governments.
• The USSR, America and Britain would all join the
  United Nations
• The majority of Eastern Europe would be dominated
  by the USSR, and seen as 'a Soviet sphere of
  influence.'
• The only quarrel was about Poland's boarders. The
  USSR wanted them to move westward into Germany
  and in turn the USSR's boarders would be moved
  westward as well. Britain and America didn't want
  to allow the USSR to become too powerful to deal
  with, however due to USSR had complete military
  control in both Poland and Eastern Germany, so
  America and Britain conceded and allowed the USSR
  to expand.

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Yalta Regrets

• During the gathering, both the United States and
  Britain returned home happy, however in the years
  to come many regretted what their leaders had
  allowed the USSR to do with Poland and it's
  boarders thinking that they might've given the
  Soviets too much.
• In the years to come a distrust of the others
  nestled within each country and grew like a
  cancer very fast.

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Division of Germany

• France, Britain, America and the Soviet Union all
  decided to split up Germany after the war. Each
  one respectively taking the slice of Germany
  closest to them. The USSR taking the Eastern side
  of Germany, Britain taking the North Western
  side, France taking the Mid Western side, and
  America taking the South Western side. Likewise
  Berlin, Germany's capital city, was divided by
  the four nations as well. In a similar fashion,
  the Soviets took the eastern side, France took
  the Northern corner, America took the south and
  Britain took the rest.

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Timeline
February 1945Britain, America, and the USSR
meet in Yalta to discuss post war Germany
January-1994 All Japanese Americans are released
from internment camps
August- 1945 USSR declares war on Japan
April- 1945Adolf Hitler commits suicide
1944
1946
1945
September 1944 Allied troops invade Germany
June- 1945 United Nations Charter Signed
May 1945Germany surrenders unconditionally
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Why?

• The Allies and the Soviet Union wanted to make it
  so that Germany could never rise up again as it
  did after World War I.
• By taking control of their own separate
  territories within Germany they were able to
  control Germany in how each country wanted. The
  Soviet Union governing it by communist values
  whilst the rest governed it how they chose.

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Political Cartoon
This political cartoon helps illustrate the
conceding of Poland to the USSR during the Yalta
Conference. By giving the USSR Poland, the Allies
allowed the USSR to move its boarders farther
west and allow the USSR to have a large chunk of
land. In the time soon to come Stalins armies
would occupy much of Eastern Europe and try to
impose communist values upon it by blocking off
all communication with the Western world.
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