'"Big Three" Conference in the Crimea', February 1945. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965), US President Franklin D Roosevelt (1882-1945), and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) at the conference of the Allied leaders, Yalta, Crimea, USSR. Yalta determined the shape the world geopolitical order would take after the Second World War. From "The Life and Times of Winston Churchill", by Malcolm Thomson. [Odhams Press Limited, London]