Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta
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Object Details
- 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
- 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.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- 1945
- Object number
- NPG.2004.37
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Samariy Gurariy
- 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")
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- 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
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2004.37
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4566170a6-a16a-4f76-98d4-e812d2763dbd
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