The outcome of the Yalta Conference

• The Big Three met again in February 1945
• Germany would be split into four zones
• It was agreed that Germany would pay $20 billion in reparations, half of which would go to the USSR
• Stalin agreed that the liberated countries in Eastern Europe would be allowed free elections, but he later went back on this
• Poland‘s borders would return back to their position in 1921 (this gave the USSR significant gains)
• The USA wanted free elections for Poland and the USSR wanted a communist government
• The United Nations was set up; it first met on 25 April 1945