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In early 1945, the war with Nazi Germany in Europe had finally turned decisively in favor of the Allies. In January and February, the political leaders of the Allied Powers—U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill—met at Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula to discuss the settling of peace for postwar Europe.