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Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta

Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta
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Artist
Samariy Gurariy, 1916 - 1998
Sitter
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 30 Jan 1882 - 12 Apr 1945
Joseph Stalin, 21 Dec 1879 - Mar 1953
Date
1945
Type
Photograph
Medium
Gelatin silver print on paper
Dimensions
Image (Verified): 25.5 × 36.8 cm (10 1/16 × 14 1/2")
Sheet (Verified): 25.5 × 36.8 cm (10 1/16 × 14 1/2")
Mat (Verified): 55.9 × 71.1 cm (22 × 28")
Topic
Costume\Headgear\Hat
Equipment\Smoking Implements\Cigar
Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Mustache
Equipment\Smoking Implements\Cigarette
Joseph Stalin: Male
Joseph Stalin: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Revolutionary
Joseph Stalin: Politics and Government\Foreign leader\Dictator
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill: Male
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill: Literature\Writer
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill: Politics and Government\Foreign leader\Prime Minister\Great Britain
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill: Nobel Prize
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill: Congressional Gold Medal
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
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Copyright
© Samariy Gurariy
Object number
NPG.2004.37
Exhibition Label
Cold War antagonism between the Soviet Union and the United States began in the final moments of World War II. For a week in February 1945, the “Big Three” allies—the leaders of Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States—met in the Crimean city of Yalta to discuss final wartime goals and the shape of the postwar world. The Allies appeared to be in harmony, but cracks were already forming in what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the “Grand Alliance.” Agreement was reached on two of his chief concerns—the formation of the United Nations and the support of Soviet troops for the continuing war in the Pacific against Japan. But left unresolved was the nature of a postwar Germany and the extent of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe. These issues, colored by the three countries’ radically different ideas of national security, were the roots of the Cold War hostilities that would last for the next several decades.
El antagonismo entre la Unión Soviética y Estados Unidos durante la Guerra Fría comenzó a fines de la II Guerra Mundial. Durante una semana en febrero de 1945, los líderes de los tres principales países aliados –Gran Bretaña, la URSS y EE.UU.– se reunieron en la ciudad de Yalta, Crimea, para discutir sus objetivos finales y la configuración del mundo en la posguerra. Parecían estar en armonía, pero ya se veían grietas en lo que el presidente Franklin D. Roosevelt llamaba la “Gran Alianza”. Llegaron a un acuerdo sobre sus dos intereses principales: la creación de las Naciones Unidas y el apoyo de las tropas soviéticas en la guerra del Pacífico contra Japón. Pero quedó sin resolver la naturaleza de la Alemania de posguerra y el alcance de la influencia soviética en Europa Oriental. Estos asuntos, desde las posiciones totalmente distintas de los tres países en cuanto a seguridad nacional, fueron la raíz de las hostilidades de la Guerra Fría, que duraría varias décadas.
Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Location
Currently not on view