Yalta Conference: A meeting held in Crimea in February 1945 where the Big Three (USA, USSR, UK) discussed post-war Europe, including territorial and political arrangements (source).
Decisions at Yalta:
Unsettled issues at Yalta:
1. What is the Yalta Conference primarily known as?
2. When did the Potsdam Conference take place?
3. What is a key feature that characterizes the post-war divisions of Europe after WWII?
Yalta Conference — purpose?
Discussed post-war Europe and Germany division.
Potsdam Conference — main decision?
Divided Germany and Berlin into four zones.
Post-War divisions — what?
Europe split into East and West, physically and ideologically.
Allies to enemies — reason?
Ideological differences led to Cold War tensions.
Eastern Europe take-over — method?
Rigged elections, terror, abolition of monarchies.
Soviet justifications — key?
Security buffer, responsibility for Nazi defeat, stopping US influence.
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