Yal‧ta /ˈjæltə $ ˈjɔːl-/

1. a port and city on the Black Sea in Ukraine, popular with tourists

2. the Yalta Conference a meeting held at Yalta in 1945 between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, which greatly influenced the history of Europe after World War II. The three leaders discussed how to finish the war against Hitler's Germany, and how central and eastern Europe should be divided after the war. They also agreed to set up the United Nations.

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