USA HISTORY

WORLD WAR II 1941 1945

THE YALTA CONFERENCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of these points was NOT something the Big Three agreed upon?
A
Russia entering the war with Japan in the Pacific to help the Allies
B
Moving the border of Poland and the Soviet Union
C
Countries liberated from Nazi occupation should hold free elections
D
The United Nations should be set up
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The U.S. and Great Britain wanted to secure the cooperation of the Soviet Union in defeating Germany. Stalin agreed, but at a price: the U.S. and Britain would accept Soviet domination of eastern Europe, support the Yugoslav Partisans, and agree to a westward shift of the border between Poland and the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam: Three wartime conferences that shaped Europe and the world. This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of two of the three allied tripartite heads of government conferences held during the second world war.

Detailed explanation-3: -Molotov also addressed the historical importance of the Nonaggression Pact. The two largest European powers agreed to end violence between themselves, while simultaneously dissecting the European continent into two separate spheres, the German West and the Soviet East.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Big Three worked out many of the details of the postwar order in the Potsdam Agreement, signed on August 1. They confirmed plans to disarm and demilitarize Germany, which would be divided into four Allied occupation zones controlled by the United States, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union.

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