Yalta

American  

[yawl-tuh, yahl-tah] / ˈyɔl tə, ˈyɑl tɑ /

noun

1. a seaport in Crimea, in southeastern Ukraine, on the Black Sea: site of wartime conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin February 4–12, 1945.

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Yalta British  

/ ˈjaltə /

noun

1. a port and resort in S Ukraine, in the Crimea on the Black Sea: scene of a conference (1945) between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, who met to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. Pop: 80 552 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Three months before the defeat of the Nazis in 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin met at Yalta and outlined plans for a postwar Germany and a new global order.

From The Wall Street Journal

The southern town of Yalta was the prime holiday destination during Soviet times, with many sanatoriums built in and around it.

From Seattle Times

Stalin met with his fellow Allied leaders, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the resort city of Yalta in Crimea in February 1945 to plan for the end of the war.

From New York Times

His family noted in a tribute that “he walked the battlefield at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam, toured the Kremlin, and sat at the table at Yalta where FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met in 1945.”

From Washington Post

That is why the Victor Pinchuk Foundation decided to hold its annual Yalta European Strategy meeting on schedule as it has for 17 years.

From Washington Post