this is after yalta.is in a situation where there's very little for him to go on except stalin's word, which probably addresses, to a degree, your question about what to cure fdr have to give stalin. there was something stalin wanted from them in eastern europe. in the pacific, it's very clear. he wanted territories and he was prepared to send his army into battle. in eastern europe he needed legitimacy and international recognition for his territorial acquisitions. him is what they could give in this halt or play some sort of games and that is what the negotiation about polish government were about. that is why -- he tried to say i did not interfere with what you did in paris and france with de gaulle. he was saying that but he really did not insist. there was still the veneer of diplomacy in negotiations because he needed legitimacy. let me add to what michael said, there might have been guilt on churchill's part as well. you brought the story to 1943. it could be fleshed out more. stalin dies in 1953.

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and this is after yalta. and he's in a situation where there is very little for him to go on apart from stalin's word which probably addresses also to a degree your question about what did he, fdr had to given to stalin but there was something that stalin wanted from them in eastern europe. in the eastern it was clear, he wanted territory and prepared to send his army into battle. in eastern europe he made legitimacy and national recognition for his territorial acquisitions and that is what they could give him or play some sort of games and that is what the negotiations about polish government were about. that is why he tried to say, i didn't interfere with what you did in paris or france, but there was still a veneer of diplomacy and negotiations and so on and so forth because he needed international legitimacy. >> let me add to what michael said. there might have been a bit of guilt on churchill's fault, and you brought the story up to 43 and that could be fleshed out more. so stalin dies on i think march 5

and that time was the yalta conference and the place was yalta.eriod of time after the conference, in the 1940's, 50's, 60's, the thinking and writing about the conference came through a number of stages. the debate started very early on with publishing of memoirs by some of the participants of the conference on the american side, like the secretary of state, burns, and his predecessor, the secretary of state who wrote a book "roosevelt and the russians, the yalta conference." -- and thesn issues were what i described, to what degree the world we thought was the outcome of mistakes or unpreparedness let's say on the part of fdr, that was burns' argument that happened at the yalta conference. and some parts of europe, in in polandr poland, itself and polish immigration, and in eastern europe yalta became a symbol of betrayal. n to the degree that munich has been taken, a western betrayal of allies into smaller countries. went mostlyd 50's under the understanding of yalta as the bad conference and ended a good war. and as a result we get not perfect

>> are you suggesting that's what happened at yalta? are you saying that's what happened at yalta? i just want to know. i'm not agreeing or disagreeing. >> kind of sort of, yeah. >> i don't think there's any doubt that yalta, much of what was discussed at yalta, but not all, can be qualified or characterized as reale politic. you give us men to help invade japan, that was precisely what was done. it's very honest about human nature. it'st says people won't do things for altruistic motives but they will do things for a quid pro quo. you do something for me and i'll do something for you. if that's all yalta was, then why all the talk about the united nations? that's not the sort of reale politique. it's that people cooperate with one another and sometimes they're willing to surrender their sovereignty in the interest of the broader global community or regional community. what you've said is essentially a pretty good characteristic. the western allies wanted some stuff. they got some stuff. stalin wanted some stuff. he got some stuff. i'm deliberately talking kind of silly, but that's

the time was yalta conference foes yalta.over the period of time after the conference in the forties, fifties, sixties, the thinking in writing and researching about the conference came through a number of stages. the debate started very early on with publish of memories from the participants of the conference on the american side like the secretary of state burns and his predecessor, secretary of state edward, who wrote a book, roosevelt in the russians, the yalta conference and the issues that were there was exactly the issues that i just described. to what degree, the world that we got at the beginning of the cold war was the outcome of mistakes or unprepared on the part of fdr. that was the argument that happen at the yalta conference. in some parts of europe and in particular in poland and poland itself a polish immigration. in eastern europe, he also became a symbol of betrayal. taken to a degree the place munich has been taken. western betrayal of allies and smaller countries. forties and fifties run to mostly under th

a year after yalta. it was that secrecy, of course, which gave them, the republicans, the means to create the yalta myth that eastern european was sold down the river. this is how yalta was being discussed throughout the 1950s. i think it was very early, like 1955, that the foreign relations volume was published, which was a principal source on the american side. >> it was '55. >> '55. so very early on. usually it takes 30 or 40 years before any approved volume is published on any given event. >> i don't think you are on, jeremy. >> there we go. we have a question to the right from dr. dupont. >> two, actually. one to all of you and then one that is very specific. the general question is, everyone is used to language like the u.s. gave, and churchill gave, so on, and so forth. can you name one thing that was given away that stalin had not already earned through military means. that's my first question. more general. second, to mr. bishop -- i'm not sure whether you are defending churchill or setting up a

churchhills impressions of yalta were far from common. he commented earlier, we could not have found a worst place for a might figure we had spent ten years looking for it. he also deemed it the riviera of hades. and his experiences there would, indeed, be hellish, despite his cheerful and not altogether honest report to his wife, clementine that, quote, we have covered great amounts of ground. i am very pleased with the decisions we have gained. in crimea, churchill saw further proof that the mantle of western leadership had been decisively passed on from britain to america. roosevelt, though physically much diminished was the four-time elected leader of what was clearly now the most powerful nation on earth. it was fdr, not churchill, who wielded decisive influence. and the prime minister could only look on with despair, as the president seemed often to side with stalin. but if things seemed pleek in yalta, churchill was a way they're others had it much worse. at one point, he said to his daughter, sarah, who had accompanied him to the

but he shot himself because of what happened that yalta -- what happened at yalta. the second follow on impact of yalta at the end of the war has to do with the shape of operations in europe in the last few months. , i grew up, in 1958, the andle of the cold war historians often spoke of a race to berlin. they castigated the western allies for having lost the race to berlin, making this mistake and that mistake and this blunder and that one. thus surrendering a big chunk of postwar germany and eastern europe to the soviets. big there were always problems with this thesis. by march, 1945, immediate post--yalta, commonest into thes had smashed rhine and came to rest at the oder river, 50 mouse from berlin. -- 50 miles from berlin. western allied forces under allied commander eisenhower were stuck on the rhine, three hunter miles away from berlin. -- 300 miles from berlin. this is where we are and here's where the western allies were at the time and here's where the soviets were. there is a real discrepancy in who is closer to berlin. the soviet offenses had smashed th

that is how we usually see yalta. determining the post war order especially in europe and let me just say. that makes perfect sense. the soviet occupation and communist asian of eastern europe, the iron curtain, the cold war, you can make a case that all of these facts of post war life kind of flow naturally of the negotiations among the big three iota. i am still reeling from the first slide doctor put up on yalta with the modern faces superimposed. i have nightmares for the next three days. seeing it in that light as the land that this is about determining the post war order, you could make various assessments of who won at the yalta conference. for much of the time that i've been alive and working in scholarship, scotland usually gets the morals. i know this from personal experience so if you will indulge me for a moment. i grew up in cleveland ohio, as i like to call it, beautiful cleveland, ohio. on the west side, it was a town with a huge population of east european ethnic groups. we used to say, and i have no w

was beingw yalta discussed through the 1950's. i think it was very early, like 1965 that the foreign relations volume was published, which was a principal source on the american side. it was very early on. usually it takes 30 or 40 years before any approved volume is published on any given event. >> [indiscernible] dr. bishop: i don't think you are on, jeremy? we have a question to the right from dr. dupont? >> one to all of you and then one that is very specific. everyone has used line which "ke " the u.s. gave" or forth.ll gave" and so can you name one thing that was given away that stalin had not already earned through military means question request the first question, more general. second, to mr. bishop -- i'm not sure whether you are defending churchill or setting up a theory about why he fought this, but it seems to me there is an inherent contradiction between your later interpretation of his being appalled at what is happening in eastern europe and the fact that he wrote on the napkin -- is was, as ikin that understand it

germany, but in yalta he was the one who was pushing for that. and fdr and churchill were champions of that idea and they were in a position where they were not prepared to commit, and the main reason for that is they advised they brought from their state department to a foreign office. and the advice was if you try to introduce something like that you would have to keep troops on the ground and there would be a real occupation unless there are moments from below that could be supported that those regions, those lands would go independently imposing from above would mean the occupation and insurgency. and the british were not prepared to do that for financial reasons for the united states. the government believed that what happened -- what would happen after world war ii is what happened after world war i, the united states would go into isolationist bode. there is no way to keep american troops in europe for more than two years. so the idea pretty much dies in yalta despite the fact that the documents that are signed there still suggest that sit

only about a bit more than a year before yalta. of course, there was many other conference by lower level diplomats. i would add to his outline that many of the issues that were discussed by the big three or by the foreign ministers were worked out by various planning committees. in great britain, it was the foreign office research department in the foreign office which came out of foreign research and press service at oxford. the british -- i looked at many of the documents with regard to post-war planning for austria. they are very complete. i think in the british case you can see that churchill took more of the suggestions of his planners than in the american case. the united states, the council on foreign relations new york began post-war planning even before the country was in the war. when the u.s. finally joined the war late in 1941, that planning effort from the council on foreign relations was brought into the state department. many of the council experts were part of it. it was in the state department much of the planning

it is that all yalta or the defeat of the ok w? where do you have to throw in the towel, dismissing the fact that your led by a madman. dr. citino: i've had to think about that a lot in my book and research. after the war, german generals were writing popular memoirs. they were saying earlier, the moment i met hitler's eye knew this was going to be trouble. i knew the moment he decided to invade poland, this is not going to work. operation barbosa, what a nutty idea. that is what they said after the war. it is not what they were saying at the time. whether you were a convinced national socialist, at some point it boiled down to loyalty to hitler's person. that is why the fuhrer's suicide was critical to the collapse of resistance along the front. another officer after the war said when i heard the outline for the attack in the ardennes, which led to the battle of the bulge, i knew it would not work. they wanted us to go to antwerp and i said if we get to the muse river we should get on her knees and thank god. i'm going to lay my c

that's how we usually see yalta. and determining the post war order, especially in europe, and let me just say, that makes perfect sense. the soviet occupation and communiization, you can make an argument that all the facts flow naturally out of the negotiations among the big three at yalta. i'm still reeling from the first slide that dr. plokhii put up, the faces imposed on -- nightmares for the next three weeks. now, seen in that light, as the lens that this is about determi determining the post war order, you can make various assessments of who so to say won at the yalta conference. and for much of the time that i've been alive and i've been working in scholarship, stalin usually gets the laurels. i know this from personal experience. if you'll indulge me for a moment. i grew up in cleveland, ohio, as i like to call it, beautiful cleveland, ohio, on the west side, a town with a huge population of huge european ethnic groups. we used to say and i have no way of determining whether this was or is actually true, ther

of course the ghosts of yalta were not yet silenced. long after the wall came down and as the united states found itself engaged in another lengthy conflict, this one in the middle east, president george w. bush delivered a speech in latvia as the world marked the 60th anniversary of hitler's defeat. in his remarks, those ghosts stirred again, as the president observed, as we mark a victory of six decades ago, we are mindful of the paradox. for much of germany defeat led to freedom. for much of eastern and central europe, victory brought the iron rule of another empire. v.e. day marked the end of fascism. but it did not end oppression. the agreement at yalta followed in the unjust tradition of munich and the maula tov ribbon trau pact. once again when powerful governments negotiated the freedom of small nations was somehow expendable. yet this attempt to sacrifice freedom for the sake of stability left a continent divided and unstable. the captivity of millions in central and eastern europe will be remembered as one of the great wrongs

reading about yalta gives one great pause, because it was not what was agreed to at yalta, but the failure to keep the agreement that led to the troubles of that time. in a span ofction, two years with a polish pope, a teflon president, and in iron lady, the kurds are countless dissidents behind the iron curtain and the internal contradictions of a system set against human nature led to the collapse of the berlin wall and the end of the cold war. predicted ofhad russia decades earlier, her people experience every day in growing bigger those -- in vigor the -- of everyday life that will -- then i have ever been before. of course, the ghosts of yalta were not yet silence. long after the wall came down and as the united states found itself engaged in another lengthy conflict, this one in the middle east, president george w. bush delivered a may 7, 2000tvia on five, as the world marked the 60th anniversary of hitler's -- 2000 five, as the world marked the 60th anniversary of hitler's defeat. those ghosts stirred again as the president observed, as we mark a victory six decades ago, we are mind

it was very hard to get to yalta at the time. in february 1945. you might know that roosevelt was already a very sickly man, and he had to travel by ship from virginia to the mediterranean ten days, and then a seven-hour flight up to the northern part of the crimean peninsula, stocky airfield, and from there he took a card to the palace in yalta. another four hours, this was a man who had all kinds of physical challenges. so keep that in mind. by the way, there was a number of other cities initially envisioned for a summit meeting, churchill and roosevelt suggested, for example, northern scotland, socially, alexandria, or jerusalem as possible, a site for a summit meeting but did not want to leave the soviet union. we will talk more about that. when we talk about summits, this was a relatively recent phenomenon and what we have an international deployment see. when center chill, as he coined many important concepts, he also coined summit trees. when there was a chase on who would first clear the summit of mount everest, that fire

the conference for which yalta had been a preparation. destination was a russian airport near yalta in the crimea. mr. molotov was on hand to greet the soviet union distinguished guests. mr. edward sternous, american secretary of state. mr. anthony eaton. the flags of the three countries flew over the field and under them stood together the united states secretary of state, the soviet foreign minister and england's foreign secretary. mr. harry hopkins arrived. prime minister churchill. the kremlin guards formed the guard of honor. president roosevelt who had also flown from malta was greeted by the russian reception committee. the daughter of mr. roosevelt and mr. churchill. after playing of the national anthem, the president and the prime minister inspected the guard of honor. the kremlin guards marched by in review. the little town of yalta at one time was famous as a sea coast playground of bizarres. now it was to be the scene of one of the most fateful meetings in the history of the world. this palace, a mile outside of town. here mos

focuses -- he talks about the legacy of yalta and and one in the cold war of the leading cold warriors the area. the national world war ii museum hosted this event. dayur final speaker of the is mr. michael bishop. michael is a consultant in the office of the chairman of the national endowment of the humanities. prior to that, he served as rector of the national church hill library and center at george washington university in and also up -- served as the director of -- society. the museum has a long-standing relationship with the local branch of the church hill society and churchill society of new orleans. with him being half american, we

tonight the focus is the 1945 yalta conference that occurred during world war ii. first a documentary on the february conference. then an examination of the world war ii allied summits in tehran, quebec and moscow which preceded the conference in 1945 followed by a discussion on the major issues and decisions of the yalta conference which took place at a crimean resort in ukraine. american history tv tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >>> up next on american history tv, the museum of the american revolution looks at the war for independence through the life of irish soldier richard st. george who fought alongside the british against the colonists. the pritzker military museum and richard von hess foundation host this event. >> i can hear you all buzzing about the exhibition that you had an opportunity to see this morning, so before i introduce our next speaker, i'd like to introduce myself. my name is dr. elizabeth grant, and i am director of education here at the museum of the american revolution, and it is my true pleasure to introduce our next sp

. ♪ almost immediately, the president went to yalta and met with joseph stalin and winston churchillsteps to crush the axis and establish peace. it was the last meeting of the original big three. franklin roosevelt looked tired and old. in april, a great man was dead. the loss of franklin delano roosevelt was deeply felt by people all around the world. ♪ in the cabinet room of the white house, harry s truman was sworn in as president. on the very eve of victory and its deserving aftermath, his was the heavy duty of carrying on with the leaders of america's allies. 25 days later, on may 7, and a little schoolhouse in france, came the unconditional surrender of germany. general alfred jodl, nazi chief of staff, signs a document formally ending all german resistance. general walter smith signed for the supreme command, and the end of one of history's most massive and brilliant campaigns brought a moment of well-earned joy to an american soldier named ike eisenhower. ♪ [explosions] in the pacific, in mortal combat against a fanatic foe, the army, marines and navy were driving to finish t

the yalta conference. american history tv tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on cspan th3.e >> up next the mu seen of american revolution looks through the eyes of rich saint george who fought alongside the british against the kcolonists. >> i can hear you all buzzing about the exhibition you had an opportunity to see this morning. so before i introduce our next speaker i would like to introduce myself. i am dr. elizabeth grant and i'm the director of education here at the museum of american revolution. it is my true pleasure to introduce our speaker. a recent review in the philadelphia enquirer says this exhibition has love, death, and psychodrama. it goes on to examine a wealthy irish noble man who is "part kickens with a spritz of yankee doodle" into there is no doubt that his story from his traumatic head wound, to the demise at the hand of his own tenants is a cracking good tale, but it is more than love, death, and psychodrama. we see the entanglements of the 18th century and the global interconnectedness of the american revolution. we find a sto

world war ii museum senior historian robert citino discussed how decisions made at the february 1945 yalta conference effected the ending of world war ii. this talk is part of a day-long symposium marking the 75th anniversary of the pivotal meeting between british prime minister winston churchill, president franklin roosevelt, and soviet leader joseph stalin. >> welcome back to the metal and paul hilliard conference center here at th

tonight the focus is the 1945 yalta conference that occurred during world war ii. a u.s.he february conference. then an examination of the world war ii allied summits in quebec and moscow which preceded conference in 1945 followed by a discussion on the major issues and decisions of the yalta conference which took place at a crimean resort in ukraine. american history tv, tonight, beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >>> up next we feature george washington's mt. vernon in northern virginia. historian doug bradburn joined us from mt. vernon's museum and education center to talk about george washington and the presidency. we learned about the library, home and museum and see re-enactors prepare to celebrate the first president's birthday on the mansion grounds. mr. bradman is ceo of the ladies' association which manages george washington's mt. vernon. >> from the ground of george washington's historic mt. vernon, we're joined now with the education and museum center there by doug bradburn, the president and ceo of george washington's

tonight the focus is the 1945 yalta conference. that occurred during world war ii. first u.s. war department documentary on the february conference. then an examination of the world war ii allied summits in tehran, quebec and moscow, which preceded the conference in 1945, followeds by a discussion on the major issues and decisions on yalta conference which took place at a crimea location in ukraine. american history tv tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >>> up next we visit the smithsonian national museum of the american museum of natural history with ann hartig. they took questions. >>> from inside the democracy exhibit at the smith smith national museum of american history, we're joined by anthea hartig, the director of the museum. explain that wagon behind you and how it ties into the story of women's suffrage and democracy in america. >> good morning, and welcome to the year of the woman, which you could argue every year should be. this year is incredibly special for all of us in america and especially here at the smithsonian. we are banded together in cele

preceded the conference in 1945, followed by a discussion on the major issues and decisions of the yalta conference which took place at a crimian result resort in ukraine. american history toove tonight -- tv tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> it's another tuesday, another soast presidential primaries in three states. in florida, arizona, and illinois. in ohio the governor there has postponed that primary due to the coronavirus. they'll move it to june 2. i want to remind you that presidential candidates, senator bernie sanders and joe biden, not doing any public events due to the outbreak. also, we'll have coverage this evening online at c-span.org of the results. you can go to c-span.org/campaign2020. >> c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up wednesday morning, we'll discuss the late thoennes coronavirus and the u.s. response to the outbreak. with the university of maryland center for health and homeland security director michael greenberger on the federal, state and local response. then efforts to slow dow

next, national world war ii museum senior historian discusses how decisions made at the february 1945 yaltag of world war ii. this talk is part of a day-long symposium marking the 75th anniversary of the pivotal meeting between british prime minister winston churchill, president franklin roosevelt, and soviet leader joseph stahlen. -- josef stalin. >> welcome back to the conference center here at the higgins hotel. i hope everybody enjoyed their lunch. we spent this morning doing some pretty high-level analysis of the scomplill strategic situation that existed amongst the allied leaders. but as we all know, wars are fought on battle fields, not in board rooms, and these summits, though they dictated much of what would happen on the ground , they woul

less than 2 weeks later a summit in the soviet seaside result of the yalta brought together the big 3 allied leaders of the anti hitler coalition. for some years britain the soviet union and the united states had been united against the nazis and. now as their forces moved into germany itself the end of the war and europe seemed only a matter of time british prime minister winston churchill. soviet dictator joseph stalin and u.s. president franklin d. roosevelt focused on concrete planning for the post will future they had sketched out at the tehran summit more than a year. and i think you goals in point of big 3 medically alter the 1st issue was the westward shift of poland they'd already discussed out of tehran now it was decision time and it was clear that there would be occupation sums done but fighting when they talked about what to do in the pacific was so much but the fiction. said father sufi union had not participated in the fighting in the pacific but roosevelt's health was declining and he wanted to bring moscow on side to end the war quickly and avoid further heavy losses.

tonight the focus is the 1945 yalta conference that occurred during world war ii. first a documentary on the february conference. then an examination of the world war ii allied summits in tehran, quebec and moscow which preceded the conference in 1945 followed by a discussion on the major issues and decisions of the yalta conference which took place at a crimean resort in ukraine. american history tv tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >>> up next on american history tv, the mm

conference in 1945 followed by a discussion on the major issues and decisions of the yalta conference which took place at a crimean resort in ukraine. american history tv, tonight, beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >>> up next we feature george washington's mt. vernon in northern virginia. historian doug bradburn joined us from mt. vernon's museum and education center to talk about george washington and the presidency. we learned about the library, home and museum and see re-enactors prepare to celebrate the first president's birthday on the mansion grounds. mr. bradman is ceo of the ladies' association which manages george washington's mt. vernon. >> from the ground of george washington's historic mt. vernon, we're joined now with the education and museum center there by doug bradburn, the president and ceo of george washington's mt. vernon on this presidents' day. first, sir, explain the significance of that moment that's portrayed over your shoulder there, the swearing in of george washington. >> you see the first president being sworn in at federal hall in new york city.

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eastern on ♪ >> here on the black sea, near the city of yalta, is the meeting place of british, russiand the u.s., the scene of the most famous conference of the war. castle, once the summer palace of czar nicholas ii, here the crimea conference will take place and at the countryside is busy with preparations. military convoys bring supplies. ♪ special communications lines are strung to the palace. ♪ under three flags at a nearby airfield, they await the arrival of the british and american delegation. ♪ anthony eaton, british foreign minister. edwards to tinea's -- edward --, united states secretary of state. harry hopkins, advisor to president roosevelt, with the u.s. ambassador to russia. and winston churchill, prime minister of great britain. ♪ also arriving by plane is trip is6000 mile franklin d. roosevelt, president of the united states. ♪ the first of eight days of day and night conferences begins with the arrival of distinguished participants. daughter,l's accompanying her father, meets president roosevelt's daughter. ♪ marshall joseph stalin, premier of the soviet union, at th

yalta, and examined the personal and political motives that drove the deliberations. national world war ii museum in new orleans hosted the event.

less than 60 days after leaving yalta, president roosevelt was dead. joseph's donald brutalizes people for eight more years until his death in 1953 but would write no memoir that day -- decades of bloody rule. once told the house of commons that history would be kind to him for he intended to write it. would indeed do just that. again, as prime minister, and in the six second world war, he would ship the memory and much else for decades to come. churchill's impressions were far from positive. he commented, as you heard earlier, we could not have found a worse place for a meeting if we spent 10 years looking for it. he also deemed it the riviera of hades. [laughter] his experiences would be hellish, despite his cheerful and not altogether honest report to his wife, clementina, that open vote, -- that, "i am very pleased with the decisions we have gained." in crimea, church hill saw further proof that the mantle of western leadership had been decisively passed on from britain to america. roosevelt, though physically much diminished, was the four-time ele

panelists compare yalta to previous meetings between the three

yalta, and examined the personal and political motives that drove the deliberations. museum in new orleans hosted the event. >> welcome back, as

professor gnter bischof explores world war ii allied summits in quebec and moscow which preceded the yalta conference. he reviews the

tonight is the 1945 yalta conference. then an examination of the world war ii allied summits in tehran, quebec, and moscow. followed by a discussion on the major issues and decisions on the yalta conference. american history tv tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on cspan th3.e >> up next the mu seen of american revolution looks through the eyes of rich saint george who fought alongside the british against the kcolonists. >> i can hear you all buzzing about the exhibition you had an opportunity to see this morning. so before i introduce our next speaker i would like to introduce myself. i am dr. elizabeth grant and i'm the director of education here at the museum of american revolution. it is my true