1. CRIMEA CONFERENCE, UKRAINE February 1945
Yalta Conference
CRIMEA CONFERENCE, UKRAINE
February 1945

3. AGREEMENT AT YALTA
DIVIDE GERMANY INTO FOUR (4) ZONES TO BE OCCUPIED AFTER THE WAR BY:
BRITAIN
FRANCE
USA
USSR

4. WHAT ELSE DID WE AGREE TO?
ELECTIONS WILL BE HELD IN THE COUNTRIES OF EASTERN EUROPE
GOVERNMENT OF POLAND WILL BE BOTH COMMUNIST & NON-COMMUNIST
SET UP THE UNITED NATIONS!!!!!

5. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED? STALIN NEVER HELD FREE ELECTIONS IN POLAND
FDR DIED ONLY TWO (2) MONTHS LATER
TRUMAN (NEXT PRESIDENT) WOULD ATTEND THE NEXT POST-WAR CONFERENCE
HITLER DIES APRIL 30
GERMANY SURRENDERS MAY 2, 1945

6. “The SOVIET UNION HAS BEOME A DANGER TO THE FREE WORLD.”
Churchill wrote this to Roosevelt after the Yalta Conference. The leaders of the three countries would meet one more time: Potsdam

7. Potsdam Conference: JULY 1945
Truman replaces FDR
Churchill gets voted out of Office
Stalin remains
Intent of seeking reparations and as much as they can get from Germany.
Agreements:
-Four zones of occupation in Germany
-Bring Nazi War Criminals to trial.

8. DISAGREEMENTS ALLIES DID NOT AGREE TO HOW TO DIVIDE GERMANY
THE AMOUNT OF REPARATIONS GERMANY SHOULD PAY
SOVIET POLICY IN EASTERN EUROPE

10. COLD WAR BEGINS
During , Stalin made sure that Communist governments came to power in all the countries of Eastern Europe.
CALLED: SALAMI TACTICS
The Communist description of this process was “slicing salami,” - gradually getting rid of all opposition.

11. WHAT DID RUSSIA TAKE?
A. Albania (1945)- the Communists took power after the war without opposition
B. Bulgaria (1945)- a left-wing coalition gained power in 1945; the Communists then executed the leaders of all other parties.
C. Poland (1947)- a coalition government took power in 1945, but the Communists forced the non-Communist leaders into exile.
D. Hungary (1947)
E. Romania ( )- a left-wing government coalition was elected in 1945 and the Communists gradually took control.
F. Czechoslovakia ( )- a left-wing government coalition was elected in In 1948 the Communists banned all other parties and killed their leaders.
G. East Germany (1949)- the Russians turned their zone of Germany into the German Democratic Republic in 1949.

12. HOW DID THE REST OF THE ALLIES REACT?
5 MARCH 1946, Winston Churchill
‘a shadow had fallen on Easter Europe, which was now cut off from the free world by ‘an iron curtain.’ Behind that line, he said, the people of Easter Europe were ‘subject to Soviet influence…totalitarian control [and] police governments.’

13. EUROPE: END OF WWII 1945

14. SOVIET DOMINATION OF EASTER EUROPE: 1946

15. WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS MEANS?

16. ASSIGNMENT: PARAGRAPH
QUESTION:
Was the Yalta Conference a success or a failure in promoting future world peace?
INSTRUCTIONS:
Take a Stand
Support your view with specific examples from your notes or text.
Use a core democratic value in support.
Give an opposing point of view
Conclude.