Yalta Conference

Historical Context Note

Lucas Paul Richert (University of Saskatchewan)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Domains

Military
Politics

Dates

Date of occurrence 1945-02-04-1945-02-11

Places

Ukraine (Location)
France (Involved)
Russia (Involved)
United Kingdom (Involved)
United States (Involved)

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On 4 February, the Yalta Conference began in the Crimea to decide how Germany and other occupied lands would be treated when final victory was achieved. At the conference Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin agreed that their three countries, plus France, would occupy Germany and that democratic elections would be held in all occupied countries. This facet of the conference bore particularly on Poland, whose invasion by Germany had precipitated the war, and for which Britain had maintained a government-in-exile in London, whereas the Soviet Union sponsored a communist “committee of national liberation” in Lublin. The conference agreed to establish a Polish government of national unity which would hold free elections, an agreement subverted by Stalin who was secretly intent on ensuring a…

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Citation: Richert, Lucas Paul. "Yalta Conference". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 September 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=5554, accessed 07 May 2024.]

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