Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Yalta Conference (1945)
On the Refugee crises map as “The Yalta agreements”
4–11 Feb 1945 — Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin agree that Poland’s eastern border will follow roughly the Curzon Line, with compensation in the west, and sign accords to return each other’s liberated citizens. Both decisions would uproot millions once the fighting stopped.
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- Turning point
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- Refugee crisis in Europe after WW2 (chapter 1 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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- WW2 · Stalin’s Soviet Union
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