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At the Yalta Conference, the Allies agreed that the liberated nations
of Europe would create democratic governments of their own choice,
defeated Germany would be divided into occupation zones, Germany would
pay war reparations, and the Soviet Union would enter the war against
Japan.
In early February 1945 the three Allied leaders—Roosevelt, Churchill,
and Stalin—met at the Black Sea resort of Yalta . There they postponed
certain matters, such as the question of postwar German reparations and
status, but they did reach some major decisions. The Soviet Union agreed
to enter the war against Japan after Germany 's defeat and was to
receive important territorial concessions in return. The Big Three also
agreed to establish a postwar world organization. Most controversial was
their understanding to hold free elections in recently liberated Poland
, an agreement that the Soviets failed to abide by and later opened
Roosevelt to charges of being naive. </span>
Generally speaking, it would be "civil rights" that people gain as part of living under an organized government, although of course this depends greatly on the government in question.
The Rosetta Stone is one of the most important objects in the British Museum as it holds the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs—a script made up of small pictures that was used originally in ancient Egypt for religious texts.
