The Yalta Conference Was The Main Cause Of The First World War

1. The Yalta Conference, which took place at Livadiya Palace in present-day Ukraine, was attended by U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt, Britain’s prime minister Winston Churchill, and Communist party secretary Joseph Stalin. One agreement made between the three powers was to both demilitarize Germany, and separate it into four parts, giving the U.S., the U.K., the Soviet Union, and France each a part of the land as military occupation. This presumably was an attempt to indefinitely prevent future law-violating war crimes to occur, the cause being the Final Solution. Furthermore, this would also increase those four powers’ control over Germany while simultaneously lowering Germany’s power. Another task accomplished during the conference was
In addition to separating Germany into four parts, Austria was also put into four occupied sections, all in control of the Allied powers. From this, it is inferred that this particular conference “[embodied] the principles stated in the Yalta Agreement, including demilitarization, denazification, democratization, [etc.]” (Axelrod “Potsdam”). Concerning reparations, the Allies received them through the land that they occupied both in Germany and Austria, further demonstrating the conjunction that the Yalta and Potsdam Conference possessed. This conjunction also appeared through the Soviet Union receiving more industrial equipment in return for produce, which would expedite its industrialization. Another situation that had impact was moving the western border of Poland to the Oder-Neisse line, which caused millions of Germans to relocate and give Poland more land from East Prussia. A similarity that can be noticed from all 3 of these results from the Potsdam Conference is that they all had resemblance to the results of the Yalta Conference. This, in turn, would further increase Stalin’s power compared to the rest of the world’s countries, foreshadowing possible dominance in the