Yalta conference

• Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin were present
• Germany, when defeated, would be divided into four zones
• Germany would have to pay $20 billion in reparations
• Stalin was to have influence over Eastern Europe but the countries are allowed democratic elections
• The UN would be set up
• The Soviet Union would declare war on Japan
• Poland would be in the 'Soviet sphere of influence' but more broader details are best
• The Big 3 (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) got along okay at this point


  Roosevelt and Stalin even pleased on an agreement for free elections and the UN
• Poland and Eastern Europe


  Was now a source of tension
• Which countries were a source of tension


  Poland and Eastern Europe
• February 1945