Agreement

• At the Tehran conference a second front was made by the US and UK to help the USSR
• At the Tehran conference they agreed in principle for the unconditional surrender of Germany and that it should remain weak
• At the Tehran conference Stalin would declare war against Japan to help the USA after Europe
• At the Tehran conference Poland should receive land from Germany and the USSR could keep land from Poland in 1939
• When was the Tehran conference?

  November 1943
• At the Tehran conference there was a general agreement for an international body to settle disputes rather than war the future United Nations
• When was the Yalta conference?

  February 1945
• During the Yalta conference the USSR had defeated the Germans and the USSR had control of most of Central and Eastern Europe
• Why did Stalin want to keep his territory gained in WW2?

  Stalin wanted them as a buffer zone against future German invasions
• At the Yalta conference it was decided Germany would be split into four zones controlled by a different power
• At the Yalta conference it was agreed to do the denazification of Germany so banning of the Nazi party and Nazi leaders would be prosecuted as war criminals
• At the Yalta conference three months after Germanys defeat Stalin agreed to join the war against Japan
• At the Yalta conference Stalin agreed that future governments in Eastern Europe would be democratically elected in free elections
• At the Yalta conference it was agreed that Polish borders would be returned to their 1921 positions which would give significant gains to the USSR with free elections. Stalin assumed these elections to be pro-communist government whereas the British supported the non-communist London Poles
• Who are the non-communist London Poles?

  Members of the Polish government who had fled to London after the outbreak of war and Nazi invasion and set up a 'government in exile' the are Catholic land-owners so anti-Soviet