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War is one of the most tragic things in our world today. With World War II ending and Russia becoming a major world power there had to be something done to prevent a future war. Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill met with Stalin for a peace agreement know as the Yalta conference. To understand the Yalta conference better you need to look at World War II, the Yalta conference and the result of the Yalta Conference. On the morning of September 1st 1939, the world was forever changed as Germany invaded Poland and executed its first "Blitzkrieg" or "Lightning attack", quickly crushing Polish resistance. Russia and Germany signed a non-aggression pact days before the attack on Poland. Seeing that Germany was dominating with barely any interference, Stalin knew that he needed an ally to survive. He turned to Britain for help but was denied so he then turned to Germa