【原】2/4 【美国历史上的今天】这个会议既散发了和平的曙光，却也是冷战的开端

美国历史上的今天

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When: Feb 4, 1945

What: The Yalta Conference commenced. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin met at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the terms for the postwar world, and to address the redistribution of power and influence. 

Why significant: Yalta was the second of three major wartime conferences among the Big Three. It was preceded by the Tehran Conference in November 1943, and was followed by the Potsdam Conference in July 1945.

The "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.

Many people place the beginning of the Cold War at Yalta. The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe, and to shape a post-war peace that represented not just a collective security order but a plan to give self-determination to the liberated peoples of post-Nazi Europe. However the conference provided the illusion of more unanimity than actually existed. Within a few years, a divisive “iron curtain,” in Churchill’s famous phrase, was beginning to descend in Europe.

Key points of the conference:

• After the war Germany and Berlin would be split into four zones, occupied by the U.S., Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union.

• The status of Poland was discussed. It was agreed to re-organize the communist Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland that had been installed by the Soviet Union "on a broader democratic basis."

• Stalin agreed to enter the fight against the Empire of Japan "in two or three months after Germany has surrendered and the war in Europe is terminated."
  

Tags: WW II, The Yalta Conference, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Premier Joseph Stalin, the Tehran Conference, the Potsdam Conference