Question: The Yalta Conference, held February 4-11, 1945 ended World War II and determined the future of the European continent, setting the global balance of power between the two superpowers for the next four decades. Discuss how the Western and Eastern hemispheres managed to avoid the outbreak of an actual "red hot" war during the Cold War, how relative global peace until the late 1980s could be maintained (not counting the so-called proxy wars, which remained local and did not threaten the Cold War status quo). (Three clear and precise thesis)