WORLD HISTORY

COLD WAR ERA

IMPACT OF COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
At what conference was it decided that the USSR would be allowed to liberate Eastern Europe?
A
Yalta
B
Potsdam
C
San Francisco
D
Washington DC
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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Overview. The Cold War was a struggle for world dominance between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union. At the Yalta Conference, the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France agreed to split Germany into four zones of occupation after the war.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bogomolov of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, implicitly acknowledged that the Kremlin had violated the Yalta agreement’s promise of free elections in the six nations–Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria–that became Soviet buffers from the Baltic to the Aegean.

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