In February 1945 Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in Yalta on the Black Sea to discuss the re-establishment and re-organisation of European nations after the war. The Yalta Conference, as it became known, was the second of three meetings between Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt, and is considered the most controversial.
The Tehran Conference had happened prior in November 1943, and was followed by the Potsdam Conference in July 1945. Yalta was the last conference that Roosevelt would attend before his death in April 1945.
The conference was held in Yalta because Stalin was unwilling to travel very far. He was supposedly advised by his doctors that he should not take any long-haul trips. Stalin was also afraid of flying, a fear that was connected to his general paranoia.
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