Yalta Conference carves up postwar Europe
February 4, 1945
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in a Crimean palace to plan the final defeat of Germany and the shape of peace. Stalin secured Soviet dominance of Eastern Europe with vague language about free elections. FDR, visibly dying, agreed to much. Churchill went home uneasy. The Iron Curtain was already descending.
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