Thursday, January 8, 2009
What was the Yalta Agreement conflict? ?
Roosevelt needed Stalin's help to defeat Japan, and got Stalin to agree to declare war on Japan, in return for him giving Stalin the right to establish a "sphere of influence" in Eastern Europe.
Churchill was against this, he wanted democratic elections in all the nations freed from Nazi/German rule.
Stalin wanted to have "friendly" states surrounding it, because it had suffered two previous wars in the 20th century, and wanted buffer zones between it and the capitalist nations.
Some believed that Roosevelt "sold out" to Stalin, because he was tired, and ill, and didn't fight hard enough for democratic elections after the war.
In fact, I think Roosevelt was showing appreciation to the Soviet Union for their aid in defeating Germany. He also recognized that after the war ended, we'd have to be on "friendly" terms with Stalin, or the Soviet Union, if we wanted a true peace to hold after the war.
Some in the USA, including General Patton, were calling for continuation of World War Two, to continue to Moscow and complete what Hitler had failed at, the destruction of the Soviet Union.
If you know your history, that's what happened after World War One, the Allies had tried to overthrow the new Soviet Government under Lenin, when they had defeated the Germans in the first world war.
So, the argument is basicly over, how the Yalta conferences ended, and who sold out whom, and why.
Later, Truman would have to live up to those agreement, even though he didn't need the Russians, to defeat Japan, since we had the Atomic Bomb, that ended the War in Asia faster than anyone had expected in Feb 1945.
If only we could fight wars with hindsite.
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