Yalta
/ˈjæltə/
/ˈjɔːltə/
- a holiday town by the sea in the Ukraine in the former USSR, where the Yalta Conference took place in February 1945. The leaders of the Allies, Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, met to agree on plans to defeat Germany in the Second World War, to decide on what the borders of various countries in Europe would be after the war ended, and to make plans for setting up the United Nations.