During the final year of the war, the British premier, Winston S. ... As the Soviet army had already effectively occupied Poland, Churchill knew that he could do little for Poland. However, Churchill knew he could secure a 'percentages agreement', which Churchill later referred as his 'naughty document', by dividing the Balkans into spheres of influence. ... Churchill was impressed, thinking that was a successful conference where Stalin could be relied upon. ... However, the power accorded Churchill and Roosevelt was conditional on the ballot box. ...

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At the time of the Yalta Conference, both Roosevelt and Churchill had trusted Stalin and believed that he would keep his word. ... Churchill and Roosevelt had both agreed that they would work for the establishment of a new Polish government that represented the Polish people. ... It resulted from a meeting at sea between Roosevelt and Churchill in August 1941. ... Poland was seen as a "test-case- of Soviet-Western relations, so Churchill and Roosevelt had to find solutions, or at least, explanations, to satisfy their own people. ... Winston Churchill was, like Roosevelt, "distressed-, on t...

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Shortly afterwards the first troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force leave for Murmansk and Arhangelsk to help the White Army, which was supporting the Tsar, in the civil war against the Bolsheviks, hoping, in Winston Churchill's phrase, to "strangle Bolshevism in the cradle". ... In 1946 Churchill, who had been the UK wartime Prime Minister spoke of an "Iron Curtain" falling across the Eastern Europe in which Russians now controlled many states. ... On July 25, 1945, two month after Germany has surrendered, the Big Three - Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman met in Potsdam...

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Churchill and Roosevelt both disapproved. Churchill Knew that not much could be done, as the red army was in control of Poland and east Germany. ... West Berlin remained a capitalist island in a sea of communism (Winston Churchill 1948). ... In 1948 Churchill made his Iron Curtain speech, in which he said, "an Iron Curtain has descended. ... There were more speeches like Churchill's in the West. ...

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• Grade Level: High School