Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Yalta Conference February 1945
- What Stalin wanted
- To keep the
parts of
Poland they
had annexed
- Communist govt in Poland
- High reparations from Germany
- American
recognition of
Mongolian
independence
from China
- American recognition of Russian
interests in Manchuria
- More land for a buffer zone
- What Roosevelt wanted
- Democracy
throughout
Eastern Europe
- USSR to enter Pacific War
- USSR to join UN
- To discuss post-war settlement
- Agreements
- Interim govts
to be set up in
newly liberated
countries
- It had to represent "all
democratic elements"
- USSR would have a sphere of
influence in Eastern Europe
- UN would be set up
- Issues not agreed upon
- Divergence of opinion
on meaning of "all
democratic elements"
- Roosevelt
and
Churchill
saw it as
meaning a
system of
democracy
like in the
West
- Stalin took it to mean a govt which
represented the workers i.e. communism
- Reparations
- Stalin wanted high
reparations to recoup
losses and punish
Germany
- Soviet Union lost about 27 million
people, 1/4 killed or injured
- US wanted low reparations to make
Germany strong: able to trade with it
- Borders of Germany and Poland
- Leaders
- Able to work well together