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The Yalta Conference (Russian: Ялтинская конференция, romanized: Yaltinskaya konferentsiya), held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
Yalta Conference: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States April 16, 1945 Joint session Prosecution of the War Harry S. Truman, President of the United States May 21, 1945 Joint session Bestowal of the Medal of Honor on Jake W. Lindsey: George Marshall, Chief of Staff of the Army Harry S. Truman, President of the United States June ...
In 1945, Japan sought Soviet assistance in negotiating a settlement with the Western Allies. The Soviet Union, however, had its own agenda. Stalin delayed action on Japan's overtures because he had already agreed at the Yalta Conference (February 1945) to enter the war against Japan after defeating Germany.
At the Bretton Woods Conference, the Allies agreed to the creation of the International Monetary Fund, which would provide for currency stabilization, and the World Bank, which would fund post-war rebuilding. [257] Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met for a second time at the February 1945 Yalta Conference.
Yalta Conference (February 4–11, 1945) United Nations Conference on International Organization (April 25 – June 26, 1945) Potsdam Conference (July 17 – August 2, 1945)
In total Attlee attended 0.5 meetings, Churchill 16.5, de Gaulle 1, Roosevelt 12, Stalin 7, and Truman 1. For some of the major wartime conference meetings involving Roosevelt and later Truman, the code names were words which included a numeric prefix corresponding to the ordinal number of the conference in the series of such conferences.
The purpose of the conference was to plan the final campaign against the Germans with the Combined Chiefs of Staff (the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff and the British Chiefs of Staff Committee). Politically, the overriding purpose was to present a united front against Stalin in the Yalta Conference a few days later. That did not happen ...
Roosevelt and Chiang discussed making Dalian a free port after the war, and at the Yalta Conference in February 1945, one of the agreements reached between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was for Dalian to become a free port under international supervision, [5] but the decision of the Yalta Conference to make Lushun a Soviet leased military port ...