The Yalta conference took place in Ukraine in 1945, 7 months before the second World War ended. It was clear that Germany was losing the war, the allies, the Big 3( Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin) met in Yalta to decide what to do with Germany and future peace. They agreed upon Stalin entering the war against the Japanese once Germany surrendered. Germany was going to be divided into an American zone, a French zone, a British zone and a Soviet zone. They were going to hunt down the men responsible for the Holocaust and the genocide. The people liberated from the Germans could vote which government they wanted. The three of them also …show more content…
An agreement was made between the Allied Forces and the Soviet forces. First was the communist scare that the communism would spread from Russia to other countries and take over like wild fire leaving the US the only capitalist country. Second France didn't want Korea as a colony and the US was not going to let the communist north overtake the whole country. The Russian occupied north and had a government installed that was determined to take over the south. That invasion took place on June, 1951. The US and UN came to South Korea's defense. The only cause of the Korean War was the invasion of South Korea by North Korea. Japan annexed the Korean peninsula in the early 1910s. When World War 2 ended, American and British forces set up a pro-Western country in the southern part of the peninsula and the Soviet Union set up a Communist government in the north. The war, was an attempt to use force to unify the entire peninsula under Communist