FDR Dies

DougM

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I doubt it changes much. The US did not really accomplish much at that conference anyway.
I mean what more could happen? The USSR gets ALL of Europe? The agreements did not exactly favor the US and anything that the USSR didn’t like they would latter ignore, Sofrankly I don’t see where a lot of useful anything came out of said confidence.
The war was going to finish the way it did one way or the other. The west was going to take what it did and the YSSR was going to take what it did and not much was going to change, Conference or no Conference.
 
I doubt it changes much. The US did not really accomplish much at that conference anyway.
I mean what more could happen? The USSR gets ALL of Europe? The agreements did not exactly favor the US and anything that the USSR didn’t like they would latter ignore, Sofrankly I don’t see where a lot of useful anything came out of said confidence.
The war was going to finish the way it did one way or the other. The west was going to take what it did and the YSSR was going to take what it did and not much was going to change, Conference or no Conference.

Pretty much. Yalta was just a lot of de-jure recognition for things that had already occurred, plus some finagling out the details for earlier, more generalized agreements. Rather more interesting is the question of how putting Truman in the drivers seat about four months earlier might affect Potsdam.
 
I had heard that a big reason Stalin did so well at Yalta was that FDR’s sickness made him much less effective, with a side order of the work being done at odd hours to accommodate night owls like Churchill and Stalin at the expense of morning person FDR. So if you want to keep the Soviets at Bay, send a night owl who’s at 100% to go against them.
 
My understanding is that Churchill had agreed a deal with Stalin in the fall of 1944 and the deal reflected facts on the ground
 
The reason Stalin did so well at Yalta is because the Red Army already occupied most of the territories he wanted. There was little Britain and the US could do to stop him annexing them anyway.
 
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