Major Purpose Of The Yalta Conference In 1945

One major purpose of the Yalta Conference in 1945 was to decide how to restructure Europe after the war. Early in World War II, Allied leaders decided that the enemy they had to defeat first was the Nazi Germany. The Soviet Union suffered high civilian and military casualties because it was invaded and partially occupied during World War II.
The Yalta conference took place in Ukraine in 1945, 7 months before the second World War ended. It was clear that Germany was losing the war, the allies, the Big 3( Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin) met in Yalta to decide what to do with Germany and future peace. They agreed upon Stalin entering the war against the Japanese once Germany surrendered. Germany was going to be divided into an American zone, a French zone, a British zone and a Soviet zone. They were going to hunt down the men responsible for the Holocaust and the genocide. The people liberated from the Germans could vote which government they wanted. The three of them also
agreed to join the United Nations who goal was keeping peace. Eastern Europe should be seen as ‘a Soviet influence’ for the damage the USSR had received in the war.
The main cause for the Korean War started after WWII.
An agreement was made between the Allied Forces and the Soviet forces. First was the communist scare that the communism would spread from Russia to other countries and take over like wild fire leaving the US the only capitalist country. Second France didn't want Korea as a colony and the US was not going to let the communist north overtake the whole country. The Russian occupied north and had a government installed that was determined to take over the south. That invasion took place on June, 1951. The US and UN came to South Korea's defense. The only cause of the Korean War was the invasion of South Korea by North Korea. Japan annexed the Korean peninsula in the early 1910s. When World War 2 ended, American and British forces set up a pro-Western country in the southern part of the peninsula and the Soviet Union set up a Communist government in the north. The war, was an attempt to use force to unify the entire peninsula under Communist
rule.
The United States lost over 38,000 troops in Korea. The war brought nuclear sensibilities when MacArthur wanted to use nuclear weapons against Chinese troops and Washington rejected the idea. South Korea has rebounded to become an economic giant. North Korea has been mismanaged into an economic wasteland. A stalemate developed in which no side could win after China backed North Korea. A truce was signed on July 27th 1953 permanently dividing the peninsula into two hostile neighbors. US troops are still stationed there to protect the south against another attack from the north.