TENSIONS AT YALTA - 1945

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  • At the beginning of 1945 the marriage of convenience known as the grand alliance between Britain the US and the USSR against nazi Germany during WW2 was beginning to show cracks as without a common enemy they realised that they had more differences than similarities
  • WHAT WAS AGREED AT Yalta 1945?
    -Division of Germany into 4 zones
    -Berlin would be similarly divided
    -creation of the United Nations.
    -declaration of liberated Europe should be created
  • What were the goals of the US at Yalta?
    -collective security founded on the United Nations
    -cooperation with the USSR
    -reconstruction of Germany
    • post war world that reflects the American concept of democracy
  • What were the goals of the USSR at Yalta?
    • security guaranteed through soviet spheres of influence in Europe
    • Germany to remain weak
    • Economic reconstruction
    • Turn Germany into a communist state in the future