(February 4-11, 1945), meeting between President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin at Yalta in the Russian Crimea during the last year of
World War II. The Allies agreed upon final plans for the defeat of Germany and the occupation and control of Germany after the war, including its division into four occupied zones. They also called for a conference at San Francisco to draw up a charter for the
United Nations. The Soviet Union agreed to join the war against Japan after Germany's defeat and to hold free elections in Eastern European countries under its sway. Because Stalin failed to keep the latter agreement and instead installed governments dominated by the Soviet Union, critics in the United States later charged that FDR had "sold out" American interests at Yalta, even though it was Stalin who broke the agreement.
