Which describes the purpose of the yalta conference?

a. leaders from germany, italy, and japan convened to determine how to pay reparations for their contributions to world war ii.
b. german and japanese leaders convened to strategize on how to best defeat the allies.
c. german leaders met to discuss the terms of their surrender to the allied troops.
d. leaders from the united states, soviet union, and great britain met to discuss a post-world war ii peace.

 D. Leaders from the United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain met to discuss a post-World War II peace.

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US president Franklin Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, the leaders of the Allies in World War II, met at Yalta in 1945.  Churchill and Roosevelt pushed strongly for Stalin to allow free elections to take place in the nations of Europe after the war. At that time Stalin agreed, but there was a strong feeling by the other leaders that he might renege on that promise. The Soviets never did allow those free elections to occur. Later, Winston Churchill wrote, ""Our hopeful assumptions were soon to be falsified." Stalin and the Soviets felt they needed the Eastern European nations as satellites to protect their own interests.

the crusades are one of the most significant events in the history of europe and the middle east.   they were a series of religious wars carried out by christian crusaders from europe during the timeframe of the middle ages.   beginning in 1095 ce, the crusades saw european knights and noblemen travel to the middle east in an attempt to capture the holy land away from muslim people that had controlled the region for the previous centuries.   the term crusade means ‘cross’.   therefore, the europeans that became crusaders viewed themselves as ‘taking up the cross’.   in fact, many of the crusaders wore crosses on their clothing and armor as they made their pilgrimage to the holy land.

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