USA HISTORY

WORLD WAR II 1941 1945

THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The agreement on how to end WWII in Europe was done at a conference in ____
A
Yalta
B
Berlin
C
Munich
D
London
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Yalta Conference took place in a Russian resort town in the Crimea from February 4–11, 1945, during World War Two.

Detailed explanation-2: -At Yalta, the Big Three agreed that after Germany’s unconditional surrender, it would be divided into four post-war occupation zones, controlled by U.S., British, French and Soviet military forces. The city of Berlin would also be divided into similar occupation zones.

Detailed explanation-3: -After much negotiation, the following outcomes of the Yalta Conference emerged: Unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, the division of Germany and Berlin into four occupational zones controlled by the United States, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-4: -The main outcome of the Yalta Conference was the division of Germany into occupied zones administered by British, French, Soviet and US forces. The leaders also decided that the German military machine would be confiscated or abolished and that major war criminals ought to be tried by an international court.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Potsdam Conference, 1945. The Big Three-Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman-met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.

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