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Allied Wartime Conferences. Casablanca. January, 1943 FDR and Churchill met to plan the next phase of the war Agreed to increase the bombing of Germany Agreed to invade Italy, the “soft underbelly of Europe” instead of invading France. USSR did not like this decision. Tehran. Late 1943
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Casablanca • January, 1943 • FDR and Churchill met to plan the next phase of the war • Agreed to increase the bombing of Germany • Agreed to invade Italy, the “soft underbelly of Europe” instead of invading France. • USSR did not like this decision
Tehran • Late 1943 • FDR, Stalin and Churchill met to plan strategy. • USSR will launch full-scale assault on Germany when the Allies invaded France. • Agreed to break up Germany after the war • Talked about creating a new world organization after the war and possibility that USSR would enter the war against Japan after the defeat of Germany
Cairo • Immediately after Tehran Conference • FDR and Churchill met to plan the invasion of France • Chose Eisenhower to lead the invasion and the codename of “Operation Overlord.”
Yalta • February, 1945 • See notes on Victory in Pacific Sheet
Potsdam • July, 1945 • Truman, Stalin, Churchill, and Clement Atlee (who would be replacing Churchill) met to iron out details about the end of the war. • Stalin wanted reparations from Germany, but Truman wanted to allow German industry to recover. • Agreed to split Germany a little differently and to accept the German-Polish border established by the USSR. • Truman got the message that the atomic bomb test was successful while he was at this conference. • Increased tensions between western Allies and the USSR were evident at this conference.