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World History
Mr. Plouffe
Korea International School
Notice the extent of the Soviet offensive at the time of Yalta.
Eastern Front (February 4, 1945)
1. What countries had been liberated or annexed by the former Soviet Union by
February 1945?
The terms of the Yalta agreement were as follows:
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Germany would be divided into four zones of occupation: American, British,
French, and Soviet.
Poland’s boundaries would be altered as per the request of Stalin.
Poland would be left to choose freely its own government.
The Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan after the defeat of Germany.
In exchange for the Soviet Union’s entrance into the war, it would receive - the
southern part of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands
- certain rights in Manchuria
- other territorial privileges in the Far East
The maps that follow show the territories promised to the Soviet Union at Yalta.
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