Yalta COnvention
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In the beginning of 1945, the allies were grasping victory and finally seeing the light at the end of the dark tunnel of World WAR II. Germany was being crushed in by two fronts while Japan's empire was growing smaller by the day. The allies' victory was forthcoming, but also was the task of reviving countries and rebuilding the world after the war. Since its beginning in 1922, the Soviet Union had remained relatively isolated, a lot like the U.S and because of this the United States and the other allied countries had little experience in dealing with them. Roosevelt had met with Stalin in Teheran in 1943, but that conference left many things undecided. The most notably being how to cooperatively finish off Japan and what the future of Eastern Europe would be. These were fairly important issues that needed to be dealt with so another meeting needed to take place. In the hopes of resolving these issues and any others that might come up, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt met at Yalta in February of 1945.
One of the most debated decisions made at Yalta regarded the Far East...