Today in 1945 During World War II, U.S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin (see the picture taken at the conference) began a conference at Yalta to outline plans for Germany's defeat.These talks were in the middle of three sets of talks that took place amongst the 'big three' and were in part responsible for shaping Europe for some time. It has been argued by some historians that these talks can be seen as the beginning of the Cold War.
