Even as the delegations were on the way to Yalta, Harry Hopkins reported to F.D.R. that Churchill “says that if we had spent ten years on research, we could not have found a worse place in the ...

Winston Churchill, the pink-cheeked giant of Western ... this earth the possibility of security and well-being.” That was Yalta. More of it lay in the quips, anecdotes, frank confidences and ...

Bettmann/Corbis As captured in this famous WWII-era photograph, Churchill met with Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference. Bettmann/CORBIS January 2015 marks 50 years ...

Debate on postwar Germany’s borders began. At Yalta, six months before, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill had agreed that a line drawn after World War I would be Poland’s eastern border with the ...

At Yalta, Churchill ridiculed Roosevelt's idea of including China as one of the Big Four of the UN Security Council. He told US secretary of state Edward Stettinius that "the Chins" would never be ...

In February 1945, world leaders convened at the Yalta Conference in Crimea to determine the shape of the post-war world. Although Nazi Germany was still resisting fiercely, it was evident their defeat ...

Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill at Yalta, Crimea, to discuss their joint plans for the postwar order. Their agreement ratified Soviet control of Eastern Europe. For this ...

Both agreements effectively ignored these facts. At Yalta, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin promised the world that all European nations would be allowed “to create democratic institutions of ...