List of World War II conferences

This is a list of World War II conferences of the Allies of World War II. For the historical context see Diplomatic history of World War II.

Name (CODE NAME)	Location	Dates	Major participants:	Major results
U.S.-British Staff Conference (ABC-1) (ABC-1)	Washington, D.C.	January 29 – March 27, 1941	American, British, and Canadian military staff	Set the basic planning agreement for the U.S. to enter the war
Atlantic Conference (RIVIERA)	Argentia, Newfoundland	August 9 – 12, 1941	Churchill, Roosevelt, Hopkins	Atlantic Charter, proposal for a Soviet aid conference
First Moscow Conference	Moscow, USSR	September 29 – October 1, 1941	Stalin, Harriman, Beaverbrook, Molotov	Allied aid to the Soviet Union
First Washington Conference (ARCADIA)	Washington, D.C.	December 22, 1941 – January 14, 1942	Churchill, Roosevelt	Europe first, Declaration by United Nations
Second Washington Conference	Washington, D.C.	June 20 – 25, 1942	Churchill, Roosevelt	Make first priority opening a 2nd front in North African Campaign before cross-English channel invasion
Second Moscow Conference	Moscow, USSR	August 12 – 17, 1942	Churchill, Stalin, Harriman	Discuss reasons for North African Campaign over cross-channel invasion, Anglo-Soviet pact on information and technological exchanges
Cherchell Conference	Cherchell, Algeria	October 21 – 22, 1942	American General Clark, and Vichy French officers including Charles Mast	A clandestine conference before the Operation Torch landings, in which some Vichy French commanders agreed not to resist the Allied landings in Morocco and Algeria^[1]
Casablanca Conference (SYMBOL)	Casablanca, Morocco	January 14 – 24, 1943	Churchill, Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, Henri Giraud	Plan Italian Campaign, plan cross-channel invasion in 1944, declaration of "unconditional surrender" of Axis, incitement to unify French fighting authorities of London and Algiers
Third Washington Conference (TRIDENT)	Washington, D.C.	May 12 – 27, 1943	Churchill, Roosevelt, Marshall	Plan Italian Campaign, increase air attacks on Germany, increase war in Pacific
Quebec Conference (QUADRANT)	Quebec, Canada	August 17 – 24, 1943	Churchill, Roosevelt, King	South East Asia Command, secret Quebec Agreement to limit sharing nuclear energy info
Third Moscow Conference	Moscow, USSR	October 18 – November 1, 1943	Foreign ministers Hull, Eden, Molotov, Fu and Stalin	Moscow Declaration
Cairo Conference (SEXTANT)	Cairo, Egypt	November 23 – 26, 1943	Churchill, Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek	Cairo Declaration for postwar Asia
Tehran Conference (EUREKA)	Tehran, Iran	November 28 – December 1, 1943	Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin	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 (SEXTANT)	Cairo, Egypt	December 4 – 6, 1943	Churchill, Roosevelt, İnönü	Agreement to complete Allied air bases in Turkey, postpone Operation Anakim against Japan in Burma.
British Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference	London, England	May 1–16, 1944	Churchill, John Curtin (Australia), Peter Fraser (New Zealand), William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada) and General Jan Smuts (South Africa).	British Commonwealth leaders support Moscow Declaration and reach agreement regarding their respective roles in the overall Allied war effort.
Bretton Woods conference	Bretton Woods, USA	July 1 – 15, 1944	Representatives of 44 nations	Establishes International Monetary Fund and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Dumbarton Oaks Conference	Washington, D.C.	August 21 – 29, 1944	Sir Alexander Cadogan, Andrei Gromyko, Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. and Ku Wei-chün	Agreement to establish the United Nations
Second Quebec Conference (OCTAGON)	Quebec, Canada	September 12 – 16, 1944	Churchill, Roosevelt,	Hyde Park Agreement
Fourth Moscow Conference (TOLSTOY)	Moscow, USSR	October 9, 1944	Churchill, Stalin, Molotov, Eden	Establishing post-war spheres of influence in Eastern Europe, Balkan peninsula
Malta Conference (ARGONAUT & CRICKET)	Malta	January 30 – February 2, 1945	Churchill, Roosevelt	Preparation for Yalta
Yalta Conference (ARGONAUT & MAGNETO)	Yalta, USSR	February 4 – 11, 1945	Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin	final plans for defeat of Germany, postwar Europe plans, set date for United Nations Conference, conditions for the Soviet Union's entry in war against Japan
United Nations Conference on International Organization	San Francisco, USA	April 25 – June 26, 1945	Representatives of 50 nations	United Nations Charter
Potsdam Conference (TERMINAL)	Potsdam, Germany	July 17 – August 2, 1945	Churchill, Stalin, Truman, Attlee	Potsdam Declaration for unconditional surrender of Japan, Potsdam Agreement on policy for Germany

In total Churchill attended 16 meetings, Roosevelt 12, Stalin 7.

Code names for some of the major wartime conference meetings involving Roosevelt and later Truman had a partial naming sequence referring to devices or instruments which had an ordinal number as part of their meaning referring to the number of the meeting: 1 ARCADIA, 2 SYMBOL, 3 TRIDENT, 4 QUADRANT, 5 (none), 6 SEXTANT, 7 EUREKA, 8 OCTAGON, 9 ARGONAUT (CRICKET & MAGNETO), 10 and last TERMINAL.

Atlantic Conference, Argentia, Dominion of Newfoundland, 1941
Casablanca Conference, Casablanca, Morocco, 1943
First Quebec Conference Quebec City, Canada, 1943
Cairo Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 1943
Tehran Conference, Tehran, Iran, 1943
Second Cairo Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 1943
Yalta Conference, Yalta, USSR, 1945
Potsdam Conference, Potsdam, Germany, 1945

Notes and references

^ David H. Lippman WORLD WAR II PLUS 55, World War II Notes, November 8, 1942 (Operation Torch)

What major conferences were held during World War II?, website of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
United States Army Center of Military History
- Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941 -1942
- Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1943 -1944
- Washington Command Post: The Operations Division
- Appendix C: Principals at the international conferences January 1943—September 1944

Diplomatic history of World War II

Conferences	U.S.-British Staff Conference (1941) Atlantic Conference (1941) First Moscow Conference (1941) Arcadia Conference (1941– 1942) Second Washington Conference (1942) Second Moscow Conference (1942) Third Washington Conference (1943) First Quebec Conference (1943) Third Moscow Conference (1942) Cairo Conference (1943) Casablanca Conference (1943) Tehran Conference (1943) Second Cairo Conference (1943) Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference (1944) Dumbarton Oaks Conference (1944) Second Quebec Conference (1944) Fourth Moscow Conference (1944) Malta Conference (1945) Bretton Woods Conference Yalta Conference (1945) United Nations Conference on International Organization (1945) Potsdam Conference (1945)

Declarations and treaties	Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1939) Pact of Steel (1939) Anglo-Thai Non-Aggression Pact (1940) Destroyers for Bases Agreement (1940) Franco-Italian Armistice (1940) Moscow Peace Treaty (1940) Tripartite Pact (1940) Anglo-Soviet Agreement (1941) Armistice of Saint Jean d'Acre (1941) German–Turkish Non-Aggression Pact (1941) Paris Protocols (1941) Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942 (1942) Armistice of Cassibile (1943) Cairo Declaration (1943) Declaration of the Four Nations (1943) Sino-British Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extra-Territorial Rights in China (1943) Treaty for Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights in China (1943) Moscow Armistice (1944) Nuremberg Charter (1945) Potsdam Agreement (1945) Potsdam Declaration (1945) United Nations Charter (1945) Paris Peace Treaties (1947) Treaty of San Francisco (1951)

Organizations	Anglo-French Supreme War Council Sino-American Cooperative Organization Four Policemen

Winston Churchill

Life	Winston Churchill as historian Winston Churchill as writer Winston Churchill in politics: 1900–39 Military service World War II War Rooms conferences Percentages agreement Statement on Atrocities European Advisory Commission Honours of Winston Churchill Later life of Winston Churchill The Other Club Blenheim Palace Chartwell St Martin's Church, Bladon

Writings	The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898) Savrola (1899 novel) The River War (1899) London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (1900) Ian Hamilton's March (1900) Lord Randolph Churchill (1906) The World Crisis (1923-1931, five volumes) My Early Life (1930) Marlborough: His Life and Times (1933-1938, four volumes) Great Contemporaries (1937) While England Slept (1938) The Second World War (1948-1963, six volumes) A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956-1958, four volumes)

Speeches	"Blood, toil, tears, and sweat" "Be ye men of valour" "We shall fight on the beaches" "This was their finest hour" "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" "Iron Curtain"

Legacy and depictions	Palace of Westminster statue Parliament Square statue Memorial Trusts Churchill Archives Centre The Churchill Centre U.S. Churchill Museum Cultural depictions

Related	Norway Debate Terminological inexactitude Tonypandy Riots Sword of Stalingrad Operation Unthinkable Four Policemen

Family	Lord Randolph Churchill (father) Jennie Jerome, Lady Randolph Churchill (mother) John Strange Spencer-Churchill (brother) Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill (wife) Diana Churchill (daughter) Randolph Churchill (son) Sarah Churchill (daughter) Marigold Churchill (daughter) Mary Soames, Baroness Soames (daughter) Descendants John Spencer-Churchill (grandfather) Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill (grandmother) Leonard Jerome (grandfather)

Wikibooks Wikiquote Wikisource texts

Joseph Stalin

History
and politics

Overviews	Early life Russian Revolution, Russian Civil War, Polish-Soviet War Rise Rule as Soviet leader Cult of personality

Chronology	August Uprising Anti-religious campaign (1921–1928)/(1928–1941) Collectivization Kolkhoz Sovkhoz Chinese Civil War First Five-Year Plan Sino-Soviet conflict (1929) 16th / 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Second Five-Year Plan Spanish Civil War Soviet invasion of Xinjiang Soviet–Japanese border conflicts 1937 Islamic rebellion in Xinjiang 1937 Soviet Union legislative election 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact Invasion of Poland Winter War Moscow Peace Treaty Occupation of the Baltic states German–Soviet Axis talks Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact World War II Soviet atomic bomb project Tehran Conference Yalta Conference Potsdam Conference Ili Rebellion Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance 1946 Iran crisis 1946 Soviet Union legislative election Turkish Straits crisis First Indochina War Cold War Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance Eastern Bloc Cominform Greek Civil War 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état Tito–Stalin split Berlin Blockade Comecon 1950 Soviet Union legislative election 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Korean War

Concepts

Controversies

Works

De-Stalinization

Criticism and
opposition

Remembrance

Family

Friends

Residences

Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd President of the United States (1933–1945) 44th Governor of New York (1929–1932) Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913–1920) New York State Senator (1911–1913)

Presidency	Inaugurations (1st 2nd 3rd 4th) New Deal New Deal coalition First 100 days Second New Deal Federal Emergency Relief Administration Civilian Conservation Corps Agricultural Adjustment Administration Emergency Banking Act Tennessee Valley Authority National Labor Relations Act National Industry Recovery Act Public Works Administration National Recovery Administration Works Progress Administration National Youth Administration Social Security Act Aid to Families with Dependent Children Communications Act of 1934 Federal Communications Commission Securities and Exchange Commission Monetary gold ownership Gold Reserve Act Silver seizure Record on civil rights Defense industry non-discrimination Fair Employment Practices Commission Indian Reorganization Act Executive Orders 9066,9102 War Relocation Authority Japanese American internment German-American internment Italian-American internment Brownlow Committee Executive Office of the President G.I. Bill of Rights Cullen–Harrison Act Roerich Pact Four Freedoms Four Freedoms Monument Federal Council of Negro Affairs Black Cabinet Jefferson's Birthday holiday Judicial Court-Packing Bill Federal Judicial appointments Supreme Court Cabinet "Brain Trust" Modern Oval Office Official car Criticism

Presidential Foreign policy	Banana Wars U.S. occupation of Nicaragua, 1912–1933 U.S. occupation of Haiti, 1915–1934 Good Neighbor Policy (1933–1945) Montevideo Convention (1933) Second London Naval Treaty (1936) ABCD line (1940) Export Control Act Four Policemen Lend-Lease 1940 Selective Service Act Atlantic Charter (1941) Military history of the United States during World War II Home front during World War II Combined Munitions Assignments Board War Production Board Declaration by United Nations (1942) Dumbarton Oaks Conference World War II conferences Quebec Agreement Europe first Morgentau Plan support

Presidential speeches	Commonwealth Club Address Madison Square Garden speech "Four Freedoms" Infamy Speech Arsenal of Democracy "...is fear itself" Fireside chats "Look to Norway" Quarantine Speech "The More Abundant Life" Second Bill of Rights State of the Union Address (1934 1938 1939 1940 1941 1945)

Other events	Early life, education, career Warm Springs Institute Governorship of New York Business Plot Assassination attempt

Elections	New York state election, 1928 1930 Democratic National Convention, 1920 1924 1932 1936 1940 1944 United States presidential election, 1920 1932 theme song 1936 1940 1944

Life and homes	Early life and education Groton School "Springwood" birthpace, home, and gravesite Campobello home Paralytic illness Top Cottage Little White House, Warm Springs, Georgia

Legacy	Presidential Library and Museum Roosevelt Institute Roosevelt Institute Campus Network Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Roosevelt Island Four Freedoms Park White House Roosevelt Room Roosevelt Study Center Four Freedoms Award Four Freedoms paintings Unfinished portrait Postage stamps Roosevelt Dime Books Films The Roosevelt Story 1947 Sunrise at Campobello 1960 Eleanor and Franklin 1976, The White House Years 1977 Warm Springs 2005 Hyde Park on Hudson 2012 The Roosevelts 2014 documentary Other namesakes Other works

Roosevelt family Delano family	Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (wife) Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (daughter) James Roosevelt II (son) Elliott Roosevelt (son) Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (son) John Roosevelt II (son) Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves (granddaughter) Curtis Roosevelt (grandson) Sara Delano Roosevelt (granddaughter) Franklin D. Roosevelt III (grandson) John Roosevelt Boettiger (grandson) James Roosevelt III (grandson) James Roosevelt (father) Sara Ann Delano (mother) James Roosevelt Roosevelt (half-brother) Isaac Roosevelt (grandfather) Jacobus Roosevelt (great-grandfather) Fala (family dog)

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Harry S. Truman

33rd President of the United States (1945–1953) 34th Vice President of the United States (1945) U.S. Senator from Missouri (1935–1945)

Presidency	1945 inauguration 1949 inauguration Potsdam Conference Agreement on Europe Declaration to Japan Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Fair Deal Mental Health Act National Institute of Mental Health National School Lunch Act Employment Act of 1946 Council of Economic Advisers Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Loyalty Order National Security Act of 1947 Joint Chiefs of Staff National Security Council Department of the Air Force Central Intelligence Agency Key West Agreement Joint Long Range Proving Grounds Revolt of the Admirals Committee on Civil Rights Integration of the Armed Forces Housing Act of 1949 North Atlantic Treaty NATO Assassination attempt Korean War U.N. Security Council Resolutions 82, 83 Relief of General MacArthur Office of Defense Mobilization Science Advisory Committee 1952 steel strike Puerto Rican constitutional referendum, 1952 National Security Agency State of the Union Address (1946 1950 1952) Judicial appointments Supreme Court Cabinet Truman Balcony "The buck stops here"

Life	Early life and career Presidential Library, Museum, and gravesite Missouri Office and Courtroom Truman Committee Democratic vice presidential nomination of 1944

Books	Bibliography Memoirs by Harry S. Truman: Year of Decisions Memoirs by Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial and Hope

Homes	Birthplace Harry S. Truman Farm Home Harry S. Truman home and National Historic Site Historic District Blair House Truman Little White House

Elections	United States Senate election in Missouri, 1934 1940 Democratic National Convention 1944 1948 United States presidential election, 1944 1948 "Dewey Defeats Truman" campaign song Democratic Party presidential primaries, 1952

Legacy	Truman Day Harry S Truman Building Truman Dam and Reservoir Harry S. Truman Scholarship Truman Sports Complex Postage stamps

Related	Give 'em Hell, Harry (1975 play and film) Truman (1995 film)

Family	Bess Wallace Truman (wife) Margaret Truman (daughter) John Anderson Truman (father) Martha Ellen Young Truman (mother) Clifton Daniel (son-in-law) Clifton Truman Daniel (grandson)

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World War II

Participants

Allies (leaders)	Australia Belgium Brazil Canada China Cuba Czechoslovakia Denmark Ethiopia France Free France (from June 1940) Greece India Italy (from September 1943) Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Philippines (Commonwealth) Poland South Africa Southern Rhodesia Soviet Union United Kingdom United States Puerto Rico Yugoslavia

Axis and Axis-aligned (leaders)	Albania Bulgaria Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China Independent State of Croatia Finland Germany Hungary Free India Iraq Italy (until September 1943) Italian Social Republic Japan Manchukuo Philippines (Second Republic) Romania Slovakia Thailand Vichy France Armed neutrality

Resistance	Albania Austria Belgium Czech lands Denmark Estonia Ethiopia France Germany Greece Hong Kong Italy Japan Jewish Korea Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Philippines Poland Anti-communist Romania Thailand Soviet Union Slovakia Western Ukraine Vietnam Yugoslavia Monarchists

Timeline

Prelude	Africa Asia Europe

1939	Poland Phoney War Winter War Atlantic Changsha China

1940	Weserübung Netherlands Belgium France Second Armistice at Compiegne Britain North Africa West Africa British Somaliland Baltic States Moldova Indochina Greece Compass

1941	East Africa Yugoslavia Greece Crete Iraq Soviet Union (Barbarossa) Finland Lithuania Syria and Lebanon Kiev Iran Leningrad Moscow Sevastopol Pearl Harbor Hong Kong Philippines Changsha Malaya Borneo (1941–42)

1942	Burma Changsha Java Sea Coral Sea Gazala Midway Rzhev Blue Stalingrad Dieppe El Alamein Guadalcanal Torch

1943	Tunisia Kursk Smolensk Solomon Islands Sicily Lower Dnieper Italy Armistice of Cassibile Gilbert and Marshall Islands Changde

1944	Monte Cassino / Shingle Narva Korsun–Cherkassy Tempest Ichi-Go Overlord Neptune Normandy Mariana and Palau Bagration Western Ukraine Tannenberg Line Warsaw Eastern Romania Belgrade Paris Dragoon Gothic Line Market Garden Estonia Crossbow Pointblank Lapland Hungary Leyte Ardennes Bodenplatte Philippines (1944–45) Burma (1944–45)

1945	Vistula–Oder Iwo Jima Western invasion of Germany Okinawa Italy (Spring 1945) Syrmian Front Berlin Czechoslovakia Budapest West Hunan Surrender of Germany Project Hula Manchuria Manila Borneo Taipei Atomic bombings Kuril Islands Shumshu Surrender of Japan

Aspects

General	Air warfare of World War II Blitzkrieg Comparative military ranks Cryptography Diplomacy Home front United States Australian United Kingdom Lend-Lease Manhattan Project Military awards Military equipment Military production Nazi plunder Opposition Technology Allied cooperation Total war Strategic bombing Bengal famine of 1943 Chinese famine of 1942–43 Puppet states Women Art and World War II

Aftermath	Expulsion of Germans Operation Paperclip Operation Osoaviakhim Operation Keelhaul Occupation of Germany Territorial changes of Germany Soviet occupations Romania Poland Hungary Baltic States Occupation of Japan First Indochina War Indonesian National Revolution Cold War Decolonization Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany Popular culture

War crimes	Allied war crimes Soviet war crimes British war crimes United States war crimes German (Forced labour) / Wehrmacht war crimes Holocaust Aftermath Response Prosecution Italian war crimes Japanese war crimes Unit 731 Prosecution Croatian war crimes against the Serbs against the Jews Serbian war crimes

Wartime sexual violence	German military brothels Camp brothels Rape during the occupation of Japan Comfort women Rape of Nanking Rape during the occupation of Germany Rape during the liberation of France Rape during the liberation of Poland

Prisoners	Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union German prisoners of war in the United States Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union Japanese prisoners of war in World War II German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war Polish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union Romanian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union

List of World War II conferences

List of World War II conferences

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