10.++++The+Yalta+Conferenc

   Andrew Holliday Name: Franklin Roosevelt Birth Date: January 30, 1882 Date of Incident: February 4 to 11, 1945 Interests: Running the country General info: President of the United States **The Yalta Conference **  February 4th was the start of the Yalta Conference. The Yalta Conference was when the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, and myself met in the Crimean Peninsula city of Yalta on the Black Sea (“Yalta”). We called ourselves “The Big Three” (Danzer 585). Poland was one of our major concerns. Poland’s boundaries were pushing westward. It gave part of Germany and part of its territory to the Soviet Union. Stalin wanted to deny any future invaders a clear path to the Soviet Union. Churchill and I promised that the communist government would be expanded and that free elections would be held (Hastedt 1). The most important issue we discussed at the conference was the fate of postwar Germany. Stalin, who had his country devastated by the Germans, wanted a harsh approach. He wanted to keep Germany divided into occupation zones. These zones would be controlled by allied military forces. This would make it that Germany would never threaten the Soviet Union again. Churchill disagreed with Stalin. I acted as the mediator. I hoped that the Soviet Union would stand by their commitments that they would join the war against Japan (Danzer 585). I was able to convince Churchill to agree to temporary divisions of Germany into four zones. There was one each for the Americans, the Soviets, the British and the French. Churchill and I agreed that all the zones would be brought together in a reunited Germany. (Danzer 586). The conference also agreed that Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Romania and parts of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia would be allowed to have independent governments with free elections. A final issue discussed was how to defeat Japan. We need the Soviet Union to help us. In exchange for the return of territory in the Far East, Stalin said that he would declare war on Japan within 90 days of Germany’s surrender and help us in the war (“Yalta). -Franklin Roosevelt  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">

http://www.freewebs.com/hill9460/Yalta%20Conference.jpg **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Works Cited ** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Danzer, Gerald A. et. al. __The Americans.__ Evanston: McDougal Little Inc., 2003. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Hastedt, Glenn. “Yalta Conference.” Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2004. American History Online. Facts on File, Inc. Hunterdon Central Regional High School. 21 Oct. 2008. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">“Yalta Conference.” __American History.__ 2008. ABC-CLIO. Hunterdon Central Regional High School. 21 Oct. 2008.