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Winston Churchill
,
Franklin D. Roosevelt
, and
Joseph Stalin
sitting together at the
Yalta Conference
, which took place February 4–11, 1945. The so-called "Big Three" met to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of Europe following
World War II
. Although a number of agreements were reached, Stalin broke his promises regarding
Poland
, and the
Soviet Union
annexed the regions of
Eastern Europe
it controlled, or converted them to
satellite states
.
Photo:
U.S. Army Signal Corps
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