4 February 1945
Opening of Yalta Conference
Joins Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin as the Yalta Conference opens in Crimea.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Livadia Palace in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Joins Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin as the Yalta Conference opens in Crimea.
Discusses how smaller states should be represented in the postwar international organization during the evening dinner.
Supports a significant French role in postwar German occupation and control arrangements.
Discusses referring the question of German dismemberment to the European Advisory Commission.
Churchill states that Britain has consistently supported the Curzon Line, including leaving Lwow to the Soviet Union, while requesting a gesture toward Poland.
Participates in renewed debate over the composition and frontiers of postwar Poland.
Agrees that the three foreign ministers should meet periodically after the conference.
Supports British amendments concerning the proposed Yugoslav political settlement.
Advances a British proposal concerning Allied policy toward Iran during the foreign ministers' meeting.
Participates in discussion of how major Axis war criminals should be treated after victory.
Supports French participation in the Allied Control Council and a French occupation zone in Germany.
Agrees to send a joint message to Tito and Subasic concerning the formation of a Yugoslav government.
Proposes wording changes to the final conference communiqué during the eighth plenary meeting.
Provenance
These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Great Britain and Livadia Palace. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.
This database is a research index. For formal scholarly citation, verify individual claims against appropriate primary, archival, academic or specialist sources.