Yatla Conference

Question 1

What were the 2 conferences that took place towards the end of the war?

Answer 1

• Yatla Conference
• Postdam Conference

Question 2

When was the Yatla Conference

Answer 2

Feb 1945

Question 3

Where did the Yatla Conference take place?

Answer 3

Ukraine

Question 4

Who were the Big 3 in the Yatla Conference

Answer 4

• USA: Roosevelt
• Britain: Churchill
• USSR: Stalin

Question 5

Agreements: Japan

Answer 5

Stalin agreed to enter war against Japan once Germany had surrendered

Question 6

Agreement: Germany !! (important)

Answer 6

Germany & Berlin divided into 4 zones (American, French, British and USSR)

Question 7

Agreement: United Nations

Answer 7

Big 3 agreed to join the new United Nations Organisation
= to maintain peace

Question 8

Agreement: War Criminals (2)

Answer 8

• there were many horrors in Nazi concentration camps
• so the Big 3 decided to hunt down + punish war criminals who were responsible for the genocide

Question 9

Agreements: Eastern Europe

Answer 9

Countries in Eastern Europe would fall under the Soviets’ “Sphere of Influence” = dominated by USSR

Question 10

What did the Big 3 disagree over?

Answer 10

Over what should happen to POLAND

Question 11

Disagreements: Stalin

Answer 11

Wanted to moves the borders of the USSR (west wards) towards Poland

Question 12

Disagreements: Churchill

Answer 12

• Wasn’t found of Stalin’s idea
  –> but couldn’t do much bc Red Army controlled both Poland & East Germany
  = he had to accept

Question 13

Disagreements: Roosevelt

Answer 13

• Same as Churchill
  = was persuaded by Churchill to accept

Question 14

Outcomes of the Yatla Conference

Answer 14

The agreements at Yatla would set the scene for the emergence of the Cold War