{"id":3823,"date":"2020-08-16T12:47:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T12:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2020-08-16T16:36:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:36:18","slug":"yalta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/2020\/08\/16\/yalta-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yalta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Roosevelt discussed the issues with Churchill and Stalin for the last time at Yalta in the Crimea in early February 1945.\u00a0 The very name &#8216;Yalta&#8217; has served as a metaphor for the ebb and flow of tensions with the Soviet Union.\u00a0 For some U.S. participants, the conference seemed, in Hopkin&#8217;s words, &#8216;the first great victory for the peace,&#8217; a meeting where allies with divergent interests reached reasonable agreements to end the war and establish a basis for lasting peace.\u00a0 Less than ten years later, in the tense atmosphere of the early Cold War, Yalta became synonymous with treason, fiercely partisan critics of FDR claiming that a dying president, duped by pro-Communist advisers, conceded Soviet control over Poland and Eastern Europe and sold out Chiang Kai-shek.\u00a0 A &#8216;great betrayal,&#8217; it was labeled, &#8216;appeasement greater than Munich.&#8217;\u00a0 Because a &#8216;sick man went to Yalta&#8217; and &#8216;gave away much of the world,&#8217; Senator William Langer fumed, &#8216;our beloved country is facing ruin and destruction.'&#8221; &#8211;George Herring,\u00a0<em>From Colony to Superpower,\u00a0<\/em>pp. 584-85<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Herring goes on to write that the Yalta Conference in 1945 &#8220;cannot be understood&#8221; without appreciating its context.\u00a0 What was the most essential context for appreciating the challenges posed to FDR at this Big Three gathering?<\/li>\n<li>How should we assess the historic significance of the Allies in World War II?\u00a0 Did they win the war but lose the opportunity for shaping a better peace?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v3m4SU4APCM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Roosevelt discussed the issues with Churchill and Stalin for the last time at Yalta in the Crimea in early February 1945.\u00a0 The very name &#8216;Yalta&#8217; has served as a metaphor for the ebb and flow of tensions with the Soviet Union.\u00a0 For some U.S. participants, the conference seemed, in Hopkin&#8217;s words, &#8216;the first great victory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syllabus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}