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Yalta Confrence
In February of 1945, the Yalta Conference was a meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In this meeting, these leaders agreed to order Germany's unconditional surrender and to begin the plans for a post-war world. -
Formation of West Germany
In 1949, the British, French, and American areas of occupation in Germany created the Federal Republic of Germany, West Germany. Also at this time, the German Democratic Republic, East Germany. was established from the territory occupied by the Soviet Union.
