Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt meet in Malta in the Mediterranean in February 1945, to prepare to meet Josef Stalin in the second Big Three conference on Soviet territory—Yalta. 

It was a meeting that shaped the world for decades. 

Map 1: Malta to Yalta

 

Map 2: The Western Front, 1 February 1945

 

Map 3: The Pacific Theatre, 1 February 1945

Map 4:  Poland’s shift west, 1945

Photos

 

Left: Franklin Roosevelt in 1944. Right: Roosevelt and Churchill at Malta, 2 February 1945.  

 

 

Averell Harriman and daughter Kathleen

 

The Vorontsov Palace, quarters for the British delegation

 

The Livadia Palace, quarters for the American delegation 

 

The Yusupov Palace, housing the Soviet delegation