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Yalta Conference Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill sit with military and political leaders around a large round table at the Yalta Conference in Lavadia Palace, Crimea. Yalta Conference Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Josef Stalin seated together with military officials standing behind them at the Yalta Conference in 1945.
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Yalta Conference (From left) Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference, 1945.

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Yalta Conference, (February 4ā€“11, 1945), major World War II conference of the three chief Allied leadersā€”Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Unionā€”which met at Yalta in Crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. It had already been decided that Germany would be divided into occupied zones administered by U.S., British, French, and Soviet forces....

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