President Franklin D. Roosevelt , British Prime Minister Winston Churchill , and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world. The Allied leaders came to Yalta knowing that an Allied victory in Europe was practically inevitable but less convinced that the Pacific war was nearing an end.
Recognizing that a victory over Japan might require a protracted fight, the United States and Great Britain saw a major strategic advantage to Soviet participation in the Pacific theater. This agreement was the major concrete accomplishment of the Yalta Conference. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed not only to include France in the postwar governing of Germany, but also that Germany should assume some, but not all, responsibility for reparations following the war.
Negotiators also released a declaration on Poland, providing for the inclusion of Communists in the postwar national government. By March , it had become clear that Stalin had no intention of keeping his promises regarding political freedom in Poland.
Instead, Soviet troops helped squash any opposition to the provisional government based in Lublin, Poland. When elections were finally held in , they predictably solidified Poland as one of the first Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe.
Many Americans criticized Roosevelt — who was seriously ill during the Yalta Conference and died just two months later, in April — for the concessions he made at Yalta regarding Soviet influence in Eastern Europe and Northeast Asia.
But with his troops occupying much of Germany and Eastern Europe, Stalin was able to effectively ratify the concessions he won at Yalta, pressing his advantage over Truman and Churchill who was replaced mid-conference by Prime Minister Clement Atlee.
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Documents concerning the Cold War in the Truman Presidency. Each group will be provided the role sheet for their respective country noted below. Students will be under strict instruction to fulfill their roles as opposed to personal contemporary beliefs. Students will familiarize themselves with their roles using the sheets and by conducting additional research using the sources noted above.
Students will then write a paragraph on each issue to prepare a statement of their beliefs and talking points to be pursued in the debate. At a subsequent class, a debate will be held to discuss each issue and determine which option the delegates will agree to at the Conference of Yalta.
Following the debate, a class discussion will debrief the students to determine how closely they mirrored history and discuss the difficulties of the debate considering the factors influencing them. Finally, students will examine each of the issues discussed at the Conference of Yalta and trace their development through the Truman Presidency to the modern era.
They will fill out the Yalta Conference Lives On worksheet. This can be done as a homework assignment or a class project with teacher guidance. Setting: World War II is nearly over. Even though Japan continues to fight on, Italy has been knocked out of the war, and Germany appears to be in the final weeks before it is forced to surrender. The principle members of the Allies will meet once again to discuss the progress of the war. However, unlike previous meetings which discussed war tactics, victory in Europe is a forgone conclusion.
The scope of this conference will focus on what to do in the time period following World War II. Fear of losing control of the British Empire. Wanted to ensure calamities of this nature would never happen again.
United States had a policy of isolationism. Although Joseph Stalin had asked for assistance in Europe and it was returned with the D-Day invasion and additional support was provided in the Lend-Lease Plan, the Soviet Union had yet to mount an attack against Japan. Within the country, purges were stages to eliminate any threats to his power.
Information from foreign nations were limited and censored while Soviet secrets were not released. Both had led to great loss of territory and millions of lives. Wants to ensure Germany will never be able to attack their country again. All nations are invited to have representation in the United Nations with certain voting privileges given to Allied leaders.
United Nations created with two groups-one with non Allied members and one with only Allied members. Students will be required to write a paragraph on each of the issues discussed at the debate.
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