Yalta+Conference+1945


 * || The Bloc and the Betrayal

On February 4th, 1945, the "[|Big Three]" met, to conference near Yalta, on the Crimean Peninsula. The "Big Three" were the three leading people of the three allied powers at the end of WWII. They were [|Roosevelt], the president of the U.S. and his dying brain. [|Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill], the aggressive survivor of the second Boer War. The last was [|Joseph Stalin], his intricate history rising the ranks, and the bloc of influence. As WWII was ending they called for a meeting about what would happen with post-war Germany, and the requirements for the agreement. Each party had its own agenda for post-war Germany. Although Stalin's party had the most influence due to its size and the other party's needs, he felt that he could dictate the conference. Roosevelt wanted support from the [|USSR], in the [|U.S. Pacific war] against Japan. The USSR had agreed and entered the war, although not under conventional means. There was no declaration of war. The USSR attacked Japan and had taken parts of it over. Churchill wanted free elections and democratic governments in Eastern Europe, although Stalin wanted a "[|Soviet Sphere]" of political influence in Eastern Europe. The USSR was already in Poland and Romania. So, Stalin stated that they would not give up their annexed lands in Poland. Although Poland would extend its borders into former German territory. Stalin had promised to give free elections in Poland, even though the polish government had been under soviet control. Stalin did not honor his free elections contract, and as a result Poland had been changed into a socialist state in 1949, because the "free elections" were rigged in the soviet's favor. Roosevelt had thought the newly formed United Nations would deal with Stalin and the USSR. They had agreed to join the [|U.N]. knowing that there was a voting formula consisting of a veto power for permanent members of the Security Council. With Roosevelt's health condition where it was, his judgment could have been altered into the trust that he had with Stalin. Stalin had violated the terms of the soviet bloc and had expanded it far into Eastern Europe.

Stalin was a man of great power. He had been raised by a low class family and had later become one of the world's greatest powers. Stalin had In 1922 Stalin had become general secretary of the soviet communist party. In the 1930's Stalin had started a "purge of the communist party of the soviet union" also known as the [|"great purge."]This was a campaign of political repression, executions, and persecutions. After Lenin's death Stalin had ruled the soviet state with policies based on [|Marxism-Leninism]. His political economic system was called Stalinism. Stalin had actually molded the soviet state into what it was. Stalin had succeeded in a lot of the political campaigns that he had developed. This could have been a factor of his confidence in his participation and influence in the Yalta conference.

Sir Winston Churchill was one of the most inspiration people in Great Britain's history. Despite his speech impediment, his speeches inspired the allied army and led them to victory. He was prime minister of the UK during 1940-1945 and 1951-1955. He was also an officer in the British army. He was in combat in India, In the Sudan and in the [|Second Boer War]. He had many political and cabinet positions. In the first Great War, he had many titles such as First lord of the admiralty. In the second Great War he held the same title. But on May 4th 1940 he became [|prime minister]of the UK. He was a strong and powerful speaker. He was very persuasive and influential, and he had most of his agenda taken care of in Yalta.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States. He was elected four terms and had served from 1933 to 1945, making him the only president to have served more than two terms in office. He was a substantial figure of the 20th century. He had served the US during world wide [|economic depression], as well as the second Great War. In the great depression he had made the "New Deal," to recover the economy provide relief for the unemployed, he reformed the economic and the banking systems, and he created the social security system. Roosevelt joined the British army in the allied war effort. As a result he made the US the Arms supplier and financer for the allies. Roosevelt made a great contribution to the Post-War Germany. The final partition plan had most closely resembled Roosevelt's partition. Roosevelt's plans were mostly completed despite his judgments, in the Yalta conference, although he died of a cerebral hemorrhage shortly after the conference.

After the second Great War the soviet state had created what was called the soviet bloc. Also called the eastern bloc, it referred to the countries, which it had either controlled, or it had allies in. the countries were, east Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia. The soviets, had taken over several countries by physical force. The soviets did violate the agreements, to form the soviet bloc. Due to the soviet unions involvement in the US pacific war against Japan, the soviet unions influence spread east and the Soviet Union seized the southern part of Sakhalin and Kuril Islands, even though it was supposed to be under Japanese control, as a result of the [|Russo-Japanese war]. Even in the west, the Soviet Union had a big sphere of influence due to its elimination of the Nazis. The Soviet Union had already controlled the countries and there was not much that Roosevelt or Churchill could have done to prevent Stalin from reaching his goal, and controlling parts of Europe.

The agreements, resulting from the conference, were a betrayal of the eastern European nations resulting in domination by the Soviet Union. Some Americans suggest that Roosevelt wanted to improve his negotiating position on the atomic bomb, since it was two months from its completion at the time. Stalin had agreed to the principle of liberated Europe. Which had stated that, "liberated peoples would have the right to democratic self government." The countries in the west, also had violated Yalta agreements. They refused to provide reparations to the Soviet Union with their occupation zone of Germany. Some historians see the Yalta conference as Stalin being immoral. As before confirmed by the Great Purge. Although before the meeting, Churchill and Stalin have agreed a "[|percentages agreement]," which stated how to divide their spheres of influence. At the time of the agreement, there was no way to tell if it would have turned out the way it did. The Soviet Union could have ended up at war with the western allies, over Poland. In the end, Stalin did have a major influence in the world, and at the conference. Roosevelt had made a poor judgment, and Churchill got his free elections. Although the elections were not like he had anticipated. Stalin had achieved his goals through agreements; he gained his political sphere of influence. The other two had trusted him, but he did not keep to his word, and he got what he wanted. ||  ||
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