The Yalta Conference (Part 01): A Turning Point in World War II and the Dawn of the Cold War

In the twilight of World War II, three of the most powerful leaders of the Allied nations—U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin—gathered in February 1945 at the Yalta Conference. Held in the seaside resort of Yalta on the Black Sea, within the Crimean Peninsula, this meeting would become one of the most critical moments in shaping the post-war world. Known as the "Big Three," these leaders met to discuss and decide the fate of a world that was slowly emerging from the shadows of war but was on the brink of a new global power struggle.