The Big Three shape the end of the Second World War … and the world to come.
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
