The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to tolerate Soviet spheres of influence in central and eastern Europe. Many ...

The Yalta Conference (February 4–11 ... The stability of the Yalta-Potsdam order gradually eroded with the end of the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 dismantled the bipolar ...

At Yalta, as at earlier conferences ... It was a logical expression of Stalin’s cold certainty that only power counts (said he once of the Pope, “How many divisions has he got?”).

Some historians have argued that these tensions between the Big Three helped to set the stage for the Cold War. The Yalta Conference took place during World War Two. By the Potsdam Conference ...

Forty years later, President Ronald Reagan in a statement on the 40th anniversary of the Yalta Conference pledged to undo the moral stain of Yalta. The “boundary which Yalta symbolizes ...

Yalta conference The Yalta (Crimean ... Sovietization of Eastern and Central Europe and ultimately causing the Cold War. The situation in temporarily occupied territories Russian forces continue ...

Katie and Datshiane look at the development of the Cold War, including post war tensions, The Yalta-Potsdam conferences, the Trumand Doctrine and Marshall Aid. This is the first episode in a ...

According to this narrative, the Yalta Conference legitimized Moscow’s ... Once seen as an embodiment of the post-Cold War West’s Washington-led arrogance and self-interest, it too is being ...

On this basis Yalta looked good. At Versailles the Big Four had been split before the conference began ... long-range problems—the causes of World War II. The League failed to enforce the ...

(AP Photo/File) The anniversary of the Yalta Conference, which ended 80 years ... and European nations during the Cold War. “We face a choice.” What Stubb meant, he explained, speaking as ...

Last week marked the 80th anniversary of the Yalta Conference, which was held ... the world and proclaim the perennial state of war, no longer "cold", but "hybrid", as befits the digital and ...