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Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Yalta

Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Yalta
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Artist
Samariy Gurariy, 1916 - 1998
Sitter
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 30 Jan 1882 - 12 Apr 1945
Date
1945
Type
Photograph
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image/Sheet (Verified): 28.8 × 20.3 cm (11 5/16 × 8")
Mat: 55.9 × 40.6 cm (22 × 16")
Topic
Costume\Headgear\Hat
Exterior
Vehicle
Costume\Dress Accessory\Eyeglasses
Symbols & Motifs\Flag
Costume\Outerwear\Cape
Human Figures\Crowd
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Male
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Law and Crime\Lawyer
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Politics and Government\Governor\New York
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Politics and Government\President of US
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Politics and Government\State Senator\New York
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Politics and Government\Vice-Presidential Candidate
Portrait
Place
Ukrayina\Krym\Yalta
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Copyright
© Samariy Gurariy
Object number
NPG.2004.148
Exhibition Label
Despite his failing health leading up to 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was determined to end the Second World War. After he was elected to an unprecedented fourth term in 1944, Roosevelt threw himself into discussions with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. He met them in Yalta, Soviet Crimea, where they negotiated the division of Germany, the governance of liberated Europe, and aid from the U.S.S.R. on the Pacific front. The conference resulted in the re-mapping of Poland’s borders. Free elections in Poland became a condition of the conference—but Stalin immediately defaulted. Though Roosevelt expressed his outrage over the betrayal, he never made it to the follow-up conference that would have addressed Stalin’s duplicity. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 12, just weeks before the allies would reconvene and mere months before the war’s end.
Pese al deterioro de su salud hacia 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt estaba decidido a poner fin a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Tras ser reelegido para un inaudito cuarto mandato consecutivo en 1944, Roosevelt se sumergió en debates con el primer ministro británico Winston Churchill y el líder soviético Joseph Stalin. Se reunió con ellos en Yalta, en la Crimea soviética, donde negociaron la división de Alemania, el gobierno de la Europa liberada y la ayuda de la U.R.S.S. en el frente pacífico. La conferencia resultó en el nuevo trazado de las fronteras polacas. La celebración de elecciones libres en Polonia se convirtió en una condición de la confe- rencia, pero Stalin la incumplió inmediatamente. Aunque Roosevelt expresó su indignación tras seme- jante traición, no llegó a asistir a la siguiente confe- rencia, en la que se habría tratado la hipocresía de Stalin. Roosevelt murió de una hemorragia cerebral el 12 de abril, a tan sólo semanas de que los aliados se reagruparan y meses antes del final de la guerra.
Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Location
Currently not on view