The Yalta conference ended in a compromise. Roosevelt and Churchill endorsed Stalin`s claims to Poland and the United Nations. In exchange, Stalin agreed to hold elections in Poland so that his people could elect their own government. He also agreed to declare war on Japan shortly after the German surrender. Two days after the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. A week later, Japan capitulated. The Yalta conference helped bring the Second World War to an end. But he began to mark the Cold War that followed. The turbulent alliance of capitalist and communist superpowers, which is no longer linked to a common enemy, would no longer exist. « An iron curtain is drawn on their forehead, » Churchill wrote on May 12, 1945 to Roosevelt`s successor, Harry Truman, about the Soviets. President Roosevelt said: « If we try to avoid the fact that we have put a little more emphasis on Lublin`s Poland than on the other two groups from which the new government is to be drawn, we will expose ourselves to accusations that we will try to reverse the decision in Crimea. » Roosevelt acknowledged that, in the words of Admiral William D.
Leahy, the Yalta language was so vague that the Soviets would be able to « stretch it from Yalta to Washington without ever breaking it technically. » [20] The Potsdam Conference took place from July to August 1945, with the participation of Clemens Attlee (who had replaced Churchill as Prime Minister) and President Harry S Truman (who represented the United States after Roosevelt`s death). [39] In Potsdam, the Soviets disputed allegations that they had interfered in the affairs of Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. [34] The conference led to (1) Potsdam`s declaration on Japan`s surrender[40] and (2) the Potsdam Agreement on the Soviet annexation of the former Polish territory to the curzon Line and provisions that will be addressed in a possible final treaty to end the Second World War on the annexation of parts of Germany east of the Oder-Neisse line to Poland. and North-East Prussia to the Soviet Union. On February 3, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) and Foreign Minister William H. Seward (1801-72) met with three Confederate officials, including Vice President Alexander H. Stephens (1812-83), to discuss the possibility of negotiating the end of the American Civil War, Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had been working together for some time when the United States entered the war in 1941. Roosevelt believed that a British victory on the axis was in America`s best interest, while Churchill believed that such a victory was not possible without American help.
In 1940, the two heads of state worked to find ways for America to help Britain continue without violating its neutrality. The following year, they met off the coast of Newfoundland to begin planning for the post-war world. The Soviet Prime Minister, Joseph Stalin, was a late complement to the Big Three. On New Year`s Day 1942, representatives of the three nations signed the United Nations Declaration and pledged to unite to defeat the Axis powers. By March 1945, it had become clear that Stalin had no intention of keeping his promises regarding political freedom in Poland. Instead, Soviet troops helped break any resistance to the provisional government based in Lublin, Poland. When elections finally took place in 1947, they consolidated Poland as one of the first Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe. As the war ended in Europe, Roosevelt knew that the United States was still facing a long-term struggle against Japan during the Pacific War and wanted to confirm Soviet support to limit the duration and sacrifices in that conflict.