1. The Yalta Conference
Bargain or Sellout?

2. Yalta Conference
The last meeting attended by the wartime “Big Three” – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin.

3. Roosevelt’s Agenda
Under pressure to secure a commitment from the Soviet Union to enter the war against Japan as soon as possible after the defeat of Germany in Europe.

4. Roosevelt’s Agenda
Desire to win Russian cooperation in the creation of the United Nations
Saw as vindication for the failed League of Nations

5. Stalin’s Agenda
Guarantee of secure frontiers for the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe through the creation of buffer zones of friendly socialist governments

6. Stalin’s Agenda
Desire to regain territory lost to Japan in Russo-Japanese War of 1905

7. Churchill’s Agenda
Wanted to insure full representation for all members of the British Commonwealth in the United Nations

8. Yalta Fact Sheet
Restored sovereign rights and self-government to Europe; agreed that signers would assist in guaranteeing free elections, if necessary
Divided Germany into four occupation zones to be administered by Great Britain, United States, France and the Soviet Union

9. Required war reparations from Germany to be distributed according to the losses suffered by Allied countries with the Soviet Union receiving 50%, or $10 billion

10. Established a new government in Poland, giving it eastern Germany but awarding eastern Poland to Russia
Gave Russia the Kurile Islands, the southern half of the Sakhalin Island, an occupation zone in Korea, and privileges in Manchuria, Port Arthur, and Dairen, if Russia entered the Pacific war within three months after the war in Europe ended

11. Recognized the autonomy of Outer Mongolia from China
Established a voting procedure in the Security Council of the United Nations incorporating the concept of a big power veto

12. Permitted the Russian republics of the Ukraine and White Russia (Byelorussia) separate membership and votes in the United Nations
Called an organizational meeting of the United Nations in the United States on April 25, 1945