Each leader had an agenda for the Yalta Conference: Roosevelt wanted Soviet support in the U.S. Pacific war against Japan and Soviet participation in a postwar peacekeeping organization called the United Nations. :- Churchill pressed for free elections and democratic governments in Eastern and Central Europe (specifically Poland). Stalin demanded a Soviet sphere of political influence in Eastern and Central Europe. The United States and the United Kingdom asserted a number of times over the course of the war that each did not seek to expand its territory as a reward for fighting the war. The United Kingdom especially did not trust Soviet aspirations for territory after the war, recalling that it was precisely desire for land that motivated the Soviet Union to sign the Nonaggression Pact with Germany weeks before Germany invaded Poland to start World War II. Churchill feared that the Soviet Union sought to increase its influence and its communist philosophy through Eastern Europe. The Yalta Conference was a crucial meeting in which the Allies were essentially ne- gotiating which nation would be a leader in Europe after the war. SHORT ANSWER Why was Winston Churchill wary of Stalin's aims at the Yalta Conference? Was he correct in his assumptions? Explain

Each leader had an agenda for the Yalta Conference: Roosevelt wanted Soviet support in the U.S. Pacific war against Japan and Soviet participation in a postwar peacekeeping organization called the United Nations. :- Churchill pressed for free elections and democratic governments in Eastern and Central Europe (specifically Poland). Stalin demanded a Soviet sphere of political influence in Eastern and Central Europe. The United States and the United Kingdom asserted a number of times over the course of the war that each did not seek to expand its territory as a reward for fighting the war. The United Kingdom especially did not trust Soviet aspirations for territory after the war, recalling that it was precisely desire for land that motivated the Soviet Union to sign the Nonaggression Pact with Germany weeks before Germany invaded Poland to start World War II. Churchill feared that the Soviet Union sought to increase its influence and its communist philosophy through Eastern Europe. The Yalta Conference was a crucial meeting in which the Allies were essentially ne- gotiating which nation would be a leader in Europe after the war. SHORT ANSWER Why was Winston Churchill wary of Stalin's aims at the Yalta Conference? Was he correct in his assumptions? Explain