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Yalta
Yalta , city (1989 pop. 89,000), S Ukraine, in S Crimea, on the Black Sea. Picturesquely situated near the seashore, Yalta is on the site of an ancient Greek colony. It is the largest resort in the Crimea, with numerous hotels, sanatoriums, and tourist and rest homes—many of which were built... Read more |
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Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference meeting (Feb. 4-11, 1945), at Yalta, Crimea, USSR, of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Most of the important decisions made remained secret until the end of World War II for military or political... Read more |
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Argonauts
ARGONAUT, codename for the Allied conference at Yalta in the Crimea which was held from 4 to 11 February 1945 to discuss future strategy (see Grand Alliance) and the division of post-war Germany. Present were Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, and their diplomatic and military advisers,... Read more |
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Declaration on Liberated Europe
Declaration on Liberated Europe, issued at the Yalta conference in February 1945 (see ARGONAUT). It committed the UK, USA, and USSR to establishing free elections and democratic governments in the countries they had liberated, and reiterated the three leaders' belief in the principles stated in the... Read more |
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San Francisco Conference
San Francisco Conference (25 April–26 June 1945). This conference drafted the United Nations Charter. Its origins lay in a 1942 “Declaration by the United Nations” issued by twenty‐six countries that had declared war against the Axis powers, and the 1943 Moscow... Read more |
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Sergei Gerasimov
GERASIMOV, Sergei Nationality:Soviet. Born:Sergei Apollinarievich Gerasimov in Zlatoust, Ural region, 21 May 1906. Education:Leningrad Art School; studied scenic design at State Institute of Dramatic Art, Leningrad, 1920–25. Career:Joined FEKS group... Read more |
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Yakov Protazanov
PROTAZANOV, Yakov Nationality:Russian. Born:Yakov Alexandrovitch Protazanov in Moscow, 4 February 1881. Education:Commercial school, Moscow. Career:Film actor, from 1905; translator, then writer of scenarios and director, Gloria studios, from 1909;... Read more |
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Crimea
Crimea , Rus. and Ukr. Krym, peninsula and autonomous republic (1991 est. pop. 2,363,000), c.10,000 sq mi (25,900 sq km), extreme SE Ukraine, linked with the mainland by the Perekop Isthmus. The peninsula is bounded on the S and W by the Black Sea. The eastern tip of the Crimea is the Kerch... Read more |
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Oder-Neisse line
Oder-Neisse line frontier established in 1945 between Germany and Poland; it followed the Oder and W Neisse rivers from the Baltic Sea to the Czechoslovak border. The boundary, desired by most Poles at the expense of Germany, came about as a result of agreements between the Soviet Union, Great... Read more |
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Lublin
Lublin , city (1994 est. pop. 352,100), capital of Lubelskie prov., SE Poland. It is a railway junction and industrial center. Manufactures include trucks, agricultural machinery, chemicals, and foodstuffs. One of the oldest Polish towns, Lublin became the capital of a province in 1474 and the seat... Read more |
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Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference (1945).In 1945, the “Big Three...4–11 February 1945, when they met at Yalta in the Crimea because Stalin refused to leave the Soviet Union.Each man traveled to Yalta for different reasons. Roosevelt came because... |
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Yalta conference
Yalta conference, 4–11 February 1945. Churchill was increasingly fearful of...a proposal to return Hong Kong to China was dropped. Nevertheless, after Yalta Churchill briefly seemed hopeful concerning the future. C. J. Bartlett |
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Declaration on Liberated Europe
...Declaration on Liberated Europe, issued at the Yalta conference in February 1945 (see ARGONAUT...charges of bad faith and of breaking the Yalta accords’, A. Schlesinger, Roosevelt's Diplomacy at Yalta, 1989, quoted in R. Edmonds, The Big... |
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San Francisco Conference
...charter was prepared at the February 1945 Yalta conference. Fifty nations attended...veto power. The draft charter approved at Yalta had granted a veto to Security Council...order that many had hoped for.See also Yalta Conference.Bibliography R.B. Russell... |
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United Nations
...new organization's structure. At the Yalta Conference of February 1945, the three leaders resumed their...To assure their necessary unity, the Yalta Conference had granted the five permanent...the Kremlin in early June accepted the Yalta formula that retained the power to ... |
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Chinese Civil War, U.S. Involvement in the
...Involvement in the (1945–49).Beginning with the ambiguous Yalta Conference (1945), the United States and the Soviet Union...clients (as they did in postwar Europe). Manchuria, which Yalta had effectively awarded to the USSR, played the pebble that... |
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Dresden, raid on
...Allies wished to demonstrate to the Soviets at the forthcoming Yalta conference (see ARGONAUT) that they were giving them the support of their heavy bombers, and, indeed, at Yalta the Soviets specifically requested help in this form. In the... |
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Kurile Islands
...campaign that opened on 9 August 1945 (see Japanese–Soviet campaigns) was based on the secret Yalta agreements (see ARGONAUT). At Yalta, the USA and UK agreed that the Kurile Islands would be handed over to the USSR, in return for Soviet... |
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ARGONAUT
ARGONAUT, codename for the Allied conference at Yalta in the Crimea which was held from 4 to 11 February 1945 to...covered at the Malta meetings; the other two were discussed at Yalta. But apart from agreeing to an Allied Control Commission for... |
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Germany, battle for
...of 30 more days.On 1 February, meeting at Malta before the Yalta conference which was held from 4 to 9 February (see ARGONAUT...Meanwhile, Stalin had prolonged the race for Berlin. At Yalta, when Roosevelt and Churchill opposed shifting the Polish border... |
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Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference a World War II peace conference held on February 4–11, 1945, at Yalta in the Crimea, between President Franklin D...leaders proved largely unsuccessful. It was held in Yalta because Stalin refused to leave the Soviet Union... |
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Yalta conference
Yalta conference, 4– 11 February 1945. Churchill was increasingly fearful of...less successful in resisting Stalin's demands for huge reparations. After Yalta Churchill briefly seemed hopeful concerning the future. |
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Yalta
Yalta, Ukraine Dzhalita, Healita Now a popular holiday resort in the Crimea, the name is derived from the Polovtsian original, itself... |
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Stalin, Josef
...the Allied leaders, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, at Tehran (1943) and at Yalta (1945). After the war, Stalin extended Soviet control over Eastern Europe, installing nominally independent puppet regimes... |
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Berlin
...German capital which came to epitomize the cold war. It surrendered to the Russian troops on 2 May 1945, but according to the Yalta Conference was divided into four sectors which were administered separately by the four victorious Allied powers, France... |
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Kalinnikov, Vasily (Sergeyevich)
Kalinnikov, Vasily (Sergeyevich) (b Govt. of Orel, 1866; d Yalta, 1901 (old calendar 1900)). Russ. composer and conductor. Bassoonist in th. orchs. Ass. cond. Moscow It. Opera 1893... |
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Malta Conference
...and was the first phase of what was code-named “Argonaut,” conferences that began in Malta and were followed by the Yalta Conference. The British argued for a single push across northern Germany to Berlin and wanted most of the Allied supplies to... |
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Slonimsky, Nicolas (Nikolai) (Leonidovich)
...Had first pf. lesson at age of 6 from his aunt, Isabella Vengerova. Became rehearsal pianist at Kiev Opera and taught at Yalta Cons. 1920. Went to Paris as secretary to Koussevitzky. Settled in USA 1923. Cond. concerts of Amer. mus. in Europe 1931... |
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Allied Powers
...dominant Allies (‘the Big Three’), and coordinated the progress of the war and its aftermath at meetings in Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam. After the war, France was accepted as a fourth main ally. The term ‘the Allies’ has been applied to... |
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Gaulle, Charles de
...superpower. None the less, they gave him the privilege of entering Paris at the head of his own troops on 25 August 1944, and at Yalta decided to accept France as an equal ally in the postwar administration of Germany.De Gaulle headed various provisional governments... |
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Yalta: a city looking to reclaim its status as a tourist mecca on the
Ukrainian Weekly, The 05-04-1997 Yalta: a city looking to reclaim its status...Crimean Peninsula along the Black Sea coast, Yalta is a scenic masterpiece. The sea washes...Carpathian foothills.The assistant director of Yalta's tourist bureau, Yosyf Naskidashvili... |
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In row over Yalta, Bush pokes at Baltic politics White House Letter
...declared on May 7 in Latvia that the 1945 Yalta agreement had led to ''one of the greatest...czarist resort near the Crimean city of Yalta in the closing days of World War II.Bush has criticized Yalta at least six other times publicly, usually... |
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Profile: Tiny island of Yalta's tourism lull
...00-0000 Profile: Tiny island of Yalta's tourism lull Host: BOB EDWARDS Time...the dead season. Such is the fate of Yalta, situated on the Crimean coast of the Black Sea. Julia Barton visited Yalta and found that despite a lack of tourists... |
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Famous Grandsons Debate 1945 Yalta Summit
...2005 for a conference to commemorate the Yalta agreement signed by their grandfathers...sharply about the war and what happened at Yalta, the Ukrainian resort town where the leaders met in February 1945. Yalta divided Europe into what quickly became... |
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Yalta: The Price of Peace.(Book review)
YALTA: The Price of Peace, S.M. Plokhy, Viking, New...2010, 451 pages, $29.95. The first major work on Yalta produced after the end of the Cold War, S.M. Plokhy's Yalta: The Price of Peace reappraises the Yalta peace conference... |
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Grandsons Debate 1945 Yalta Conference
...grandfathers' wartime meeting at the Yalta Conference. The three grandsons, now...sharply about the war and what happened at Yalta, the Ukrainian resort town where the leaders met in February 1945. Yalta divided Europe into what quickly became... |
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Bush's Yalta comments slander FDR.(Main)
...it was what he said next - comparing the Yalta accord among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston...that Roosevelt betrayed Eastern Europe at Yalta, and that he set the stage for 40 years...it, and by publicly charging that the Yalta agreement was in the "unjust tradition... |
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YALTA: BIG LIE AGAIN.(Editorial)(Column)
...was what he said next -- comparing the Yalta accord among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston...that Roosevelt betrayed Eastern Europe at Yalta, and that he set the stage for 40 years...it, and by publicly charging that the Yalta agreement was in the "unjust tradition... |
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Bush Apologizes for FDR's Sellout at Yalta
...7, Bush repudiated "the agreement at Yalta" by which powerful governments negotiated...small nations. Bush accurately blamed Yalta for "the captivity of millions in Central...Bush's words assure that "the legacy of Yalta was finally buried, once and for all... |
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Yalta betrayal revisited.(CORRECTION, PLEASE!)(Correction Notice)
...Baltics. When the president compared "the Yalta accord among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston...it, and by publicly charging that the Yalta agreement was in the 'unjust tradition...acquiescence and assistance to Moscow, which the Yalta conference rightly came to symbolize... |
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