The Wartime Conferences: The Opening Shots of the Cold war
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conferenceand codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of theUnited States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta, in Crimea.
what was the purpose of the Conference?
The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. Within a few years, with the Cold War dividing the continent, Yalta became a subject of intense controversy. To some extent, it has remained controversial.