Yalta

Definition: Yalta

Yalta

Noun

1. A resort city in southern Ukraine on the Black Sea; scene of the Allied conference between Churchill and Stalin and Roosevelt in 1945.

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Date "Yalta" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

They met at Yalta. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

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Books

• From Yalta to Berlin: The Cold War Struggle Over Germany [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Le nouveau monde : de l'ordre de Yalta au deâsordre des nations (reference)

• Reflections of a Cold Warrior: From Yalta to the Bay of Pigs (reference)

• The Yalta Game: After Chekhov (Gallery Books) (reference)

• Yalta (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Meets with Eqyptian King Farouk, on board USS Quincy (CA-71) in the Great Bitter Lake, Egypt, on 13 February 1945, following the Yalta Conference. View looks aft along the cruiser's port side from atop her second eight-inch gun turret. Note 5"/38 twin gun mounts, 20mm guns and details of the ship's open bridge. Credit: NAVY.

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The Agreement which was made at Yalta, to which I was a party, was extremely favorable to Soviet Russia, but it was made at a time when no one could say that the German war might not extend all through the summer and autumn of 1945 and when the Japanese war was expected to last for a further 18 months from the end of the German war. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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Economic History

Poland

Although the Yalta agreement called for free elections, those held in January 1947 were controlled by the Communist Party. (references)

Ukraine

Cruise tours down the Dnieper River to Odessa and Yalta in Crimea are gaining in popularity, especially with U.S. and Western European tourists. (references)

South Korea

Toward the conclusion of the Second World War, the participants of the April 1945 Yalta Conference agreed to establish a four-power trusteeship for Korea. (references)

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Beginning with "Yalta": yalta-redefined.

Dutch

Jalta. (various references)

Esperanto

Jalto. (various references)

Greek 

γιάλτα. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

モンテカルロ法 (jacket, Jacobi, Monroe, Monroe effect, Monte Carlo method, Monteverdi, Montgomery, my Paris, subculture of teenage girls ca. 1999, Yakult, Yamaha, yank, Yankee, Yankeeism, yard, yard sale, young, young adult, young Mrs, young power, young town, young traditional, young urban professional, younger generation, yuppie). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ヤルタ . (various references)

Pig Latin

yaltaay

Russian 

Ялта. (various references)

Misspellings

"Yalta" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Qalat, Yalgaar. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: tala.

-2 letters: aal, ala, alt, lat, lay.

-3 letters: aa, al, at, ay, la, ta, ya.

+2 letters: acylate, anality, analyst, apetaly, astylar, atalaya, bathyal, fatally, lactary, playact, ratably, taxably.

+3 letters: acrylate, actually, acylated, acylates, alacrity, aleatory, alkylate, analysts, analytic, arrantly, astrally, atalayas, atonally, atypical, axiality, banality, betrayal, blatancy, calamity, calycate, calyptra, casualty, catalyst, catalyze, cattleya, fatality, fayalite, flatways, kalyptra, lavatory, layabout, nasality, natality, natantly, playacts, playdate, playmate, rateably, salacity, salutary, satiably, staysail, tallyman, tarnally, tympanal, vacantly.