THE YALTA CONFERENCE

Agenda Item: The Matter of the War’s End in Europe and the Wider World

Under Secretary General : Ali Mete Çavdar
Academic Assistant : Can Öktem
Academic Member : Erdem Alp Ünal

President Chair : Oğuz Tuna Yörür
Vice Chair : Hasan Afacan
Rapporteur : Umur Aslan

February 4, 1945 – the small resort town of Yalta, located on the coast of the newly Soviet-liberated Crimean peninsula. Then and there would take place a week of discussion, determining the fate of the century to come. During the Yalta Conference, the United States, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom’s most prominent men – including the leaders of the states themselves – sat down to discuss how they would end the war they had been fighting for 6 years at this point. With the Soviets near the gates of Berlin, British and French on the west bank of the Rhine, and Americans ready to deploy on the Japanese Home Islands – who would win the war was more than clear at this point. However, the question lay: What would the post-war world look like? With three conflicting sides sitting down to discuss this question, all three had different ambitions for the world as a whole – and the discussions during the Yalta Conference would be what determines who gets to realize what ambitions. In the Yalta Conference committee, delegates will simulate the week that determined the fate of all, and shape the world according to their own goals and benefits. The establishment of the United Nations, the division of Europe – the precursor to the Iron Curtain – and the fate of all occupied, defeated, and liberated nations are at stake. So then, we ask the question: Who will be the hegemon of this new world order?