5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Yalta Conference

The Yalta Conference of February 1945 brought Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin together in Crimea to carve up the postwar world before the war was even over. The agreements reached there — on Soviet entry into the Pacific war, the partition of Germany, and the fate of Eastern Europe — were immediately controversial, with critics arguing Roosevelt conceded too much to Stalin in exchange for promises the Soviets had no intention of keeping. Roosevelt was dead within two months; Churchill lost the general election before the formal surrender documents were signed.

Gibraltar's commemorative program in this period leaned heavily on WWII anniversaries. KM#1184 is part of a broader 2005 series tied to the sixtieth anniversary of the war's end.