1. Defend or Refute This Statement
Topic: Assessing the goals of the “Big Three” during World War II: Diplomacy and the War Conferences
Do Now:
“Britain, America, and the USSR were united by a common enemy. However, despite this, the allies could agree on little else. It was a miracle that these squabbling nations could win anything, let alone a World War”
Defend or Refute This Statement

2. America and Britain 1940: America aids Britain 1941: Atlantic Charter
Destroyers for Bases Deal
Lend-Lease Act
1941: Atlantic Charter
December Pearl Harbor
FDR and Winston Churchill
Agree on “Germany first” strategy

3. “The Big Three” Each of the “3” have their own goals and issues
Distrust, ambition, “idealism”?
FDR wants to “win Stalin over”
Disagreements on wartime strategy
“Second Front” debate
Major Conferences
Casablanca
Teheran
Yalta

4. Conclusion: What were the needs, goals, and motivations for each of the “Big Three”?
FDR
Stalin
Churchill