The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed

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 the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the wartime

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 meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union

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, represented by President

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 Franklin D. Roosevelt

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, Prime Minister

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 Winston Churchill

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, and General Secretary

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 Joseph Stalin

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, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. The conference convened in the Livadia Palace

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 near Yalta

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, in the Crimea

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The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.