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The Tehran Conference (codenamed Eureka [1]) was a strategy meeting of the Allies of World War II, held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943.
The US-British Staff Conference Report of 1941 established the general military principles, resources, and deployment strategies for a joint Allied military strategy. The United States based its proposals off of Harold R. Stark 's Plan Dog memorandum advocating a quick defeat of Nazi Germany, which laid the groundwork for the " Europe first ...
Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II (2006) excerpt and text search Wilt, Alan F. "The Significance of the Casablanca Decisions, January 1943," Journal of Military History (1991) 55#4 pp 517–529 in JSTOR
Thus, the Americans concurred with the British in the grand strategy of "Europe first" (or "Germany first") in carrying out military operations in World War II. The UK feared that, if the United States was diverted from its main focus in Europe to the Pacific (Japan), Hitler might crush the Soviet Union, and would then become an unconquerable ...
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers. Its principal members by the end of 1941 were the " Big Four " – the United Kingdom , United States , Soviet Union , and China .
First meeting of the Big 3, plan the final strategy for the war against Nazi Germany and its allies, set date for Operation Overlord. Second Cairo Conference: Cairo Kingdom of Egypt: December 4 – 6, 1943 Churchill, Roosevelt, İnönü: Agreement to complete Allied air bases in Turkey, postpone Operation Anakim against Japan in Burma.
Arcadia was the first meeting on military strategy between Britain and the United States; it came two weeks after the American entry into World War II. The Arcadia Conference was a secret agreement unlike the much wider postwar plans given to the public as the Atlantic Charter, agreed between Churchill and Roosevelt in August 1941.
The Allies of World War II first expressed their principles and vision for the world after the war in the Declaration of St. James's Palace in June 1941. [2] The Anglo-Soviet Agreement was signed in July 1941 and formed an alliance between the two countries. [3]