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The western allies, especially Churchill, did not like what Stalin proposed and saw it as opportunistic, they reluctantly agreed to Stalin's demands as they needed the Soviet Union to defeat the Third Reich. <ref>Roberts, Geoffrey, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300112041/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300112041&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=9b12c40f73ceb88f68fa490cbc8bc9ae Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953]</i>. (Yale University Press, Yale, 2006), p. 156</ref> In May 1944, in accordance with the decisions made at the Tehran Conference, Britain and US troops launched an invasion of France, opening the so-called “second front” in the West. Their actions allowed the Soviet Union to make significant advances across Eastern Europe toward Germany. In particular, they advanced into the territories that they had lost during the German invasion. It was becoming clear that Germany was near defeat and that the geopolitical situation was going to quickly change. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin needed to meet again to sort out the future of Europe. <ref> Roberts, p. 145</ref>

====Cement territorial and political gains at Yalta====

[[File: Yalta 1.jpg|thumbnail|300px|left|Soviet soldiers in Berlin in 1945]]