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Yalta Conference

Also known as Crimea Conference, Argonaut Conference

1945 WWII Allied discussion of post-war reorganization

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The Yalta Conference was a 1945 meeting between the leaders of the United States, Soviet Union, and Britain during World War II to discuss how to organize Europe and the world after the war ended. It matters because the agreements made there shaped the post-war political order, including decisions about territorial boundaries and the founding of the United Nations.

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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. The three states were represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin. The conference was held near Yalta in Crimea, Soviet Union, within the Livadia, Yusupov, and Vorontsov palaces.

The aim of the conference was to shape a postwar peace that represented not only a collective security order, but also a plan to give self-determination to the liberated peoples of Europe. Intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe, within a few years, with the Cold War dividing the continent, the conference became a subject of intense controversy.