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Separated by huge gulfs of politics, social, and philosophical divergence, the three chief Allied nations of World Warfare II - the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain - attempted to formulate a joint plan through some three conferences during and immediately after the conflict. The next meeting, known as the Yalta Seminar after its Black color Sea venue, occurred in February 1945 and was both the most well-known and most influential of them all. Adolf Hitler's Third Reich possessed scant time left over when the "Big Three" met to discuss the continuing future of Germany, European countries, and the postwar world all together. No doubt existed about the war's end result; the Americans possessed shattered the Wehrmacht's desperate last chuck in the western, the Ardennes Offensive, through the Battle of the Bulge in the weeks immediately preceding Yalta, and the Soviet forward lay down just 50 miles east of Berlin, with the Red Army preparing for its final force in to the Reich's capital after an effective surprise winter marketing campaign. Among the contracts, the Conference needed Germany's unconditional surrender, the split of Berlin, and German demilitarization and reparations. Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt also reviewed the status of Poland, and Russian participation in the US. By this time Stalin had extensively established Soviet authority in most of Eastern European countries and managed to get clear that he previously no purpose of quitting lands his soldiers possessed fought and died for. The best he'd offer Churchill and Roosevelt was the offer that he'd allow free elections to be organised. He managed to get clear, though, that the only real acceptable end result to any Polish election would be one that supported communism. The ultimate question lay down in how to proceed with a conquered Germany. Both European Allies and Stalin needed Berlin, and realized that whoever organised the most of it when the truce was signed would wrap up controlling the city. Thus they put in the next several months moving their generals further and additional toward this goal, but the Russians got there first. Thus, when the victorious allies met in Potsdam in 1945, it continued to be Britain and America's process to persuade Stalin to divide the united states, and even the city, between them. They completed this, but at an awful cost: Russia got liberated Austria. Given its context and importance, the Yalta Seminar symbolized a contentious matter in its own day, and it remains so among historians both professional and amateur. As just one single example, while some lauded Roosevelt's politics dexterity, many others viewed him as exceedingly naïve in his dealings with Stalin, or even while a pro-communist quisling. Yalta neither postponed nor created the Cool Warfare; the collision between two utterly incompatible systems of thought - one that, despite its defects, placed its faith in freedom, individuals rights, and bulk guideline, and the other that believed in paranoid dictatorship enforced through systematic state assault and terror - appeared inevitable in any event. If anything, Yalta empowered the three market leaders to job a momentary phantasm of unity, permitting those to postpone their intractable hostility for a few months in order to first defeat Germany.
