In public, Roosevelt and his aides oversold the agreement at Yalta as a new dawn; in private, he described it as the grim best they could manage under the circumstances. Yalta’s celebratory mood ...

"He is gone, never realizing the victory for which he so faithfully fought. And yet, he is gone knowing that through the ...

Debate on postwar Germany’s borders began. At Yalta, six months before, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill had agreed that a line drawn after World War I would be Poland’s eastern border with the ...

Poland was ultimately sacrificed at least partly because Roosevelt, and for a time Churchill too, genuinely trusted Stalin. Horrible things were agreed at Yalta and before involving the repatriation ...

Poland was ultimately sacrificed at least partly because Roosevelt, and for a time Churchill too, genuinely trusted Stalin. Horrible things were agreed at Yalta and before involving the ...

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The members of the Supreme Court including Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (center, front row) ruled against President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs. MPI / Getty Images As the ...

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At Yalta, Roosevelt was fading – he was mere weeks from death – and caved to Stalin on the re-drawing of eastern Europe’s boundaries. The Red Army had swarmed over those territories, and ...