The Yalta Conference was a historic meeting of the Allied leaders of World War II in 1945. It was held in the Soviet Union at the Livadia Palace near Yalta, a resort town on the Black Sea. The conference was attended by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. The purpose of the conference was to discuss the post-war reorganization of Europe and the defeat of Germany. The agreements reached at the conference were instrumental in shaping the post-war world.