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[[File: Yalta Conference 1945 Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px250px|Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill in 1945]]
What were the goals Stalin and the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the Second World War? The Soviet Supreme leader was an incredibly ambitious man and hoped to expand the Soviet Empire, after the defeat of the Third Reich and the Empire of Japan. Stalin sought to achieve four specific objectives. After the calamity of World War Two, he wanted to ensure the security of the Soviet Union, the expansion of Communism beyond the Soviet Union, secure his position in world affairs and create of a Soviet empire. As he set out to secure each of these goals in the wake of World War two, he laid the foundations for the Cold War.
====Securing Soviet borders at Tehran Conference====
[[File: Stalin Joseph.jpg|thumbnail|200px250px|left|Stalin in 1945]]
Stalin skillfully started to jostle for his regime's post-war position, while he and the western allies were engaged in an all-out war with Germany. Between November 28 and December 1, 1943, Stalin took part in the Tehran Conference. The main discussion of the meeting, held by the US President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Stalin, centered on the opening of a “second front” in Western Europe.
