The Yalta Conference was unique. The week...
fate in detail. And the Yalta Conference was for the most important thing of all -dividing the world.In the world before 1939, the status of the United Kingdom closely matched the stature of its Prime Minister when he stood for the Yalta photograph. Political maps painted a third of the globe pink, the color used for the British colonies. Britain was the world"s only superpower. It could not have occurred to anyone in Yalta that India"s independence would signal the beginning of the British Empire"s collapse a mere two years later, forcing the UK out of the political foreground -with the help of Stalin"s and Roosevelt"s successors. The idea would have appeared preposterous in February of 1945. Not a word was said about it in Yalta. Was it worthwhile to win a huge war only to lose global dominance and much else soon afterwards? That was the bizarre fate that awaited Britain after Yalta.
The United States entered the war as the "sick-man of the world" - the country
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