the wartime conferences
- By 1941 the leaders of the ‘Big Three’ nations (Russia, U.S.A., and Great Britain) met to discuss the running of the war
- They met:
- NewFoundland, Aug., 1941
- Casablanca, Jan., 1943
- Quebec, Aug., 1943
- Teheran, Nov.-Dec., 1943 (Determined Polish borders, opening of a Second Front, Soviets agree to join Pacific war)
- Yalta Feb., 1945 (Formalized the zones for dividing Germany, Stalin promised to join Pacific war, Stalin promised free elections in Soviet liberated areas)
- Potsdam, July-Aug. 1945 (Talks about how to disarm Germany, War criminals, reparations. Also Allies trying to avoid Eastern issues to get Russia in the Pacific war)
"In wartime truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." -Winston Churchill
What if the meetings were unsucessfull?
The big three met on multiple occasions to discuss the war and what the worls was going to do after. By the final months of the war, tensions were building between the east and west regarding what would become the soviet and western worlds.