In January 1945 the Roosevelt Administration withdrew it so that the antitrust problem and other issues could be addressed. Shortly after, efforts to revise the agreement were put into abeyance, as Roosevelt and his senior advisers set off for Yalta in the Soviet Crimea for a meeting with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. Their aim was to lay the basis for the postwar international order—and to carve out the shape and size of their spheres of influence in that postwar world.
