A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation [Edmund Burke â Reflections on the Revolution in France] Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Introduction. The February 1945 Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germanyâs unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world.
At Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan and all three agreed that, in exchange for potentially crucial Soviet participation in the Pacific theater, the Soviets would be granted a sphere of influence in Manchuria following Japanâs surrender.