USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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Meeting in February 1945 between the big three Allie leaders to discuss how World War II should end.

(A) ** Yalta Conference

(B) Neutrality Acts.

(C) Nazi-Soviet Pact

(D) Lend-Lease Act.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The Yalta Conference was a meeting of three World War II allies: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The trio met in February 1945 in the resort city of Yalta, located along the Black Sea coast of the Crimean Peninsula.

Concept note-2: -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.

Concept note-3: -In February 1945, the “Big Three” met at the former Russian czar’s summer palace in the Crimea. Yalta was the most important and by far the most controversial of the wartime meetings.

Concept note-4: -With the end of World War II finally in sight, the “Big Three” Allied leaders-U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin-met in the Soviet resort town of Yalta to plan for the dawn of the post-war world.

Concept note-5: -Yalta Conference, (February 4–11, 1945), major World War II conference of the three chief Allied leaders-Pres. Franklin D.