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Wartime Conferences-How Important Were They?
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Atlantic Charter Churchill and Roosevelt, August 1941 Peace Objectives- self-determination, no territorial expansion and free trade!
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Casablanca January 1943 Churchill, Roosevelt Invade Sicily Demanded unconditional surrender from Axis Powers
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Teheran Big Three-Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin November 1943 British and Americans begin their drive to liberate France in Spring 1944, Soviets invade Germany and eventually join war against Japan
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Yalta Big Three February 1945 On Black Sea coast Long-term significance: 1. Germany divided into occupation zones 2. free elections in liberated countries of Eastern Europe 3. Soviets would enter war against Japan (did on August 8!) 4. Soviets control Sakhalin and Kurile Islands, concessions in Manchuria 5. new world peace organization: UN founded
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Potsdam July, 1945 (after VE Day) Stalin, Truman, Attlee (British PM) Issue a warning to Japan to surrender unconditionally Hold war-crime trials of Nazi leaders
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