I deleted photos to make room on my iphone and now can't find my photos in the cloud

See the information in https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205912

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iCloud Photos is a syncing service. Any photo you delete from a device where iCloud Photos is turned on will also be deleted from iCloud and from any other device connected to iCloud Photos. You can potentially reduce the storage space required on a device by turning on Optimize Storage. See: Set up and use iCloud Photos - Apple Support

Apple does not currently offer cloud-only storage for photos. If that is what you want or need, you may want to explore 3rd party options such as Google Photos or Dropbox.

Another way that photos may be on iCloud (if you don’t have iCloud Photos turned on) is via a backup of an iOS device. The only thing you can do with a backup is use it to restore a device or set up a new device. The contents of backups are not viewable at iCloud.com and if you delete a photo from a device it will not be included in future backups and will be lost.

If the photos were deleted recently (30 to 40 days) they should be recoverable from Recently Deleted on the device or from Recently Deleted in the Photos app at www.icloud.com

Also see: If you're missing photos or videos in the Photos app - Apple Support

Yes, you deleted your photos.