When the Yalta Conference opened, the American policy of postponing all discussion of Russia's western boundaries until the peace conference had broken down.

Causes include controversy over admitting Missouri as a slave state in 1820, the acquisition of Texas as a slave state in 1845 and the status of slavery in western territories won as a result of the Mexican – American War and the resulting Compromise of 1850.

One such example is the common use of western broccoli ( xīlán, 西蘭 ) instead of Chinese broccoli ( jie lan, 芥蘭 jièlán ) in American Chinese cuisine.

After the American Civil War, the settlement of the western territories by migrants from the east led to dialect mixing and levelling, so that regional dialects are most strongly differentiated in the eastern parts of the country that were settled earlier.

*" Oh My Darling, Clementine " ( 1884 ) is an American western folk ballad believed to have been based on another song called Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden ( 1863 ).

Art historian Richard Poss took a more flexible approach, maintaining that the astronomical rock art of the North American Southwest should be read employing " the hermeneutic traditions of western art history and art criticism " Astronomers, however, raise different questions, seeking to provide their students with identifiable precursors of their discipline, and are especially concerned with the important question of how to confirm that specific sites are, indeed, intentionally astronomical.

* Bannock people, a Native American people of what is now southeastern Oregon and western Idaho

This current article covers western, notably European and American cultural movements.

Joseph Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

The local area is home to a relatively large number of American chestnut trees, planted by pioneers from New York and Pennsylvania who settled in western Michigan.

A blight in the early 20th century wiped out nearly every American Chestnut tree, but those in western Michigan developed a mysterious resistance and survived.

He sought to use the national government to preserve liberty, improve infrastructure, open the western lands, promote commerce, found a permanent capital, reduce regional tensions and promote a spirit of American nationalism.

The American physician and missionary Thomas Staughton Savage and naturalist Jeffries Wyman first described the western gorilla ( they called it Troglodytes gorilla ) in 1847 from specimens obtained in Liberia.

The gray whale is distributed in an eastern North Pacific ( North American ) population and a critically endangered western North Pacific ( Asian ) population.

In 1949, the three western occupation zones ( American, British, and French ) were combined into the Federal Republic of Germany ( FRG, West Germany ).

During the American Civil War, the oil-producing region spread over much of western Pennsylvania, up into western New York state, and down the Ohio River valley into the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and the western part of Virginia ( now West Virginia ).

In September 2010, the two western regions of the network ( United States and Canada ) merged into the North American region.

Carson's contributions to western history have been reexamined by historians, journalists and Native American activists since the 1960s.

The treaty also recognized American rights to navigate the entire Mississippi River, which had become vital to the growing trade of the western territories.

His architecture, with origins in the German Bauhaus and western European International Style, became an accepted mode of building for American cultural and educational institutions, developers, public agencies, and large corporations.

* 1999 – Eddie Dean, American western singer and actor ( b. 1907 )

The band initially broke through to North American audiences in the western provinces of Canada, with lead single " Who Can It Be Now?

This initiation challenges and trains the initiate through extreme circumstances involving a special diet and numerous different plant medicines to complement the ayahuasca, the lack of western food and conveniences, the harsh environmental conditions of heavy rains, storms, intense heat, insects, and venomous animals.

* 2010 – The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres ( 35 million cubic feet ) of liquid alumina sludge.

In 1845, a plant disease known as late blight, caused by the fungus-like oomycete Phytophthora infestans, spread rapidly through the poorer communities of western Ireland, resulting in the crop failures that led to the Great Irish Famine.

Škoda also has an assembly plant in the city of Aurangabad, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra which was established in 2001 as Škoda India Private Ltd.

Tora Bora was variously described by the western media to be an ' impregnable cave fortress ' housing 2000 men complete with a hospital, a hydroelectric power plant, offices, a hotel, arms and ammunition stores, roads large enough to drive a tank into, and elaborate tunnel and ventilation systems.

Tequila () is a liquor distilled beverage made from the blue agave plant, primarily in the area surrounding the city of Tequila, northwest of Guadalajara, and in the highlands ( Los Altos ) of the western Mexican state of Jalisco.

The plant is probably native to south eastern Europe and western Asia, but is popular around the world today.

As a consequence of the poisons discharged into the air by the factories in the area ( most notably the ILVA steel plant, part of Gruppo Riva ), Taranto is the most polluted city in Italy and western Europe.

* Calochortus elegans, the elegant Mariposa lily or cat's ear, a flowering plant species found in the western United States from northern California to Montana

* Calycadenia elegans, a synonym for Calycadenia pauciflora, the smallflower western rosinweed, a flowering plant species found in northern California

Yuccas are widely planted in the western US as a landscape plant.

Eriogonum is a common chaparral plant throughout western North America, especially California, where it is the largest genus of dicots and at least 70 species have been cataloged.

These species, the western salsify ( T. dubius ), the meadow salsify ( T. pratensis ), and the oyster plant ( T. porrifolius ), are now common weeds in urban wastelands.

The Apsley Macleay Gorges are a converging point for moister eastern coastal and dry western floras, and some 950 native plant species have been identified, of which 36 are rare or threatened.

Ameren operates a coal-fired power plant near Donnelley Wildlife Area on the western edge of town.

On December 12, 2006 the Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( I. C. E ) staged a coordinated predawn raid at the Swift & Company meat packing plant in Worthington and at five other Swift plants in western states, interviewing workers and hauling hundreds off in buses.

Historical industries in the area included a Rockwell International plant on Route 20 on the western side of Ashtabula that manufactured brakes for the Space Shuttle program and the extrusion of depleted and enriched uranium at the Reactive Metals Extrusion plant on East 21st Street.

Schuylkill Haven's sewage treatment plant is located at the southern edge of town, on the western side of St. Charles Street.

Miller, a meat packing plant in Hyrum, and at five other Swift & Company plants located in the western United States, interviewing workers and hauling off hundreds in buses.

Once Camp Kearns closed, the presence of clean drinking water and a sewer treatment plant made it possible for people to move to Kearns and live in some of the first large subdivisions built in western Salt Lake County in the 1950s.

The Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) reports that Chicory is a native plant of western Asia, North Africa, and Europe.

Caraway ( Carum carvi ), also known as meridian fennel, or Persian cumin, is a biennial plant in the family Apiaceae, native to western Asia, Europe and Northern Africa.

Showy Indian clover, Trifolium amoenum, is an example of a species that was thought to be extinct, but was rediscovered in 1993 by Peter Connors in the form of a single plant at a site in western Sonoma County.

Asian rainforest flora, including the dipterocarps, island-hopped across Wallacea to New Guinea, and several Gondwanian plant families, including podocarps and araucarias, moved westward from Australia-New Guinea into western Malesia and Southeast Asia.