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Yalta Conference

Yalta Conference

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A 1945 meeting in Yalta where US, UK, and Soviet leaders planned Europe's post-war borders
  • noun
  • /ˈjɔltə ˈkɒnfərəns/
translation icon : Conferencia de Yalta
  • The Yalta Conference brought together Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin.
  • Yalta Conference in 1945
  • attended the Yalta Conference

Examples

  • During the Yalta Conference, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed on the division of territories in Europe after World War II.

  • But to the rest of the world, it was better known as the Yalta Conference.

    Hard Country (1981)

  • Nine American officials attended the Yalta Conference and then traveled to Moscow.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Milstein had attended the Yalta Conference.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Consequently, the Allies failed to clarify their intentions at the Yalta Conference in early 1945.

    Academic text (1997)

  • "Mr. Kotlar, in 1945 you were a member of the American delegation that attended the Yalta Conference, were you not?"

    Fiction book (1999)

  • As Michael Klare has written, President Franklin Roosevelt met with King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia a week after the famous Yalta Conference aboard the USS Quincy.

    Blog text (11)

  • The leaders of the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union met at the Yalta Conference to discuss plans for post-war Europe.

  • The Yalta Conference in 1945 was crucial for determining the political landscape of Europe in the post-war period.

Surface Forms

Yalta Conference singular
Yalta Conferences plural

Morphology

Yalta + conference

The compound 'Yalta Conference' is compositionally built from the place name 'Yalta' and the noun 'conference', so a learner who knows those words can infer it refers to a conference that took place in Yalta. Specific historical details (participants, date, geopolitical significance) are not recoverable from the words alone, but the basic referent (a meeting held at Yalta) is immediately transparent.

Etymology

Yalta Conference comes from the city of Yalta on the Black Sea, where in February 1945 the leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union met, and conference simply means a big meeting. Picture Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin around a table with maps, making deals that helped decide the end of the war and the 'division of Europe', so the phrase refers to that important meeting.