November 13
1945


Churchill, Stalin, and FDR, at the 1945 Yalta Conference

Those of you with the Brinkley book will read that, to see how the US got to 1945 domestically; those without it will read the UN Charter, to see how the US got to 1945 internationally. The documents trace the evolution of US war aims with a focus on two of the stickier wartime issues: self-determination for colonies, and the fate of Poland.
READINGS:
bullet Brinkley, End of Reform, pp. 175-273. OR
bullet UN Charter (1945)
bullet Maps, WWII strategic balance

DOCUMENTS:

bullet Atlantic Charter (1941)
bullet FDR's "Four Freedoms" (1941)
bullet FDR and Stalin on colonial issues (1943)
bullet The Big Three discuss the postwar world, Teheran (1943)
bullet The Yalta Conference and Poland (1945)

 

 euro1941.gif (24832 bytes) German conquests, to 1941

europe42.gif (24026 bytes) Europe at the height of German conquests, 1942