Why did Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin meet in Yalta in 1945?
a) Worried that a general peace conference might produce punitive measures like those taken in Versailles in 1919, they chose to informally organize peace conditions among themselves.
b) Knowing that Roosevelt was likely dying, Churchill and Stalin wanted to give him some privacy at the end of war meetings.
Consider This: What had been the outcome of the Paris Peace Conference following the end of World War I? See 14.1: The Fighting Ends.
c) Knowing that the Cold War was about to start, Churchill and Roosevelt thought meeting in Yalta would be a good way to appease Stalin.
Consider This: What had been the outcome of the Paris Peace Conference following the end of World War I? See 14.1: The Fighting Ends.
d) Churchill worried that meeting in Britain would help his opponents, who hated Stalin, remove Churchill as prime minister.
Consider This: What had been the outcome of the Paris Peace Conference following the end of World War I? See 14.1: The Fighting Ends.
a) Worried that a general peace conference might produce punitive measures like those taken in Versailles in 1919, they chose to informally organize peace conditions among themselves.
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