At the Yalta Conference

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At the Yalta Conference, Stalin agreed to hold "free elections" in eastern Europe, although this promise was ultimately broken as Soviet-backed communist governments were established in countries like Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. De Gaulle did push for equal industrial reparation payments for all victor nations, but this demand was not successful. Truman did not receive word of the successful testing of the atomic bomb until several months after the Yalta Conference. Churchill's famous "Iron Curtain" speech was given after the Yalta Conference, in March 1946. Truman also issued his Truman Doctrine after the Yalta Conference, in 1947.