This mite help you!:)The first involvement of the United States in the wartime conferences between the
Allied nations opposing the Axis powers actually occurred before the nation
formally entered World War II. In August 1941, President Franklin
Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill met secretly and devised an eight-point statement of
war aims known as the Atlantic Charter, which included a pledge that the Allies
would not accept territorial changes resulting from the war in Europe. Following
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the wartime conferences focused on
establishing a second front.
President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
at the Wartime Conference
At Casablanca in January 1943, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to fight until the
Axis powers surrendered unconditionally.
In a November 1943 meeting in Egypt with Chinese leader Chiang
Kai-shek, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to a pre-eminent role
for China in postwar Asia.
The next major wartime conference included Roosevelt, Churchill, and the leader
of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin. Meeting at Tehran following the Cairo
Conference, the “Big Three” secured confirmation on the launching of the
cross-channel invasion and a promise from Stalin that the Soviet Union would
eventually enter the war against Japan.
In 1944, conferences at Bretton Woods and Dumbarton Oaks created the framework
for international cooperation in the postwar world.
In February 1945, the “Big Three” met at the former Russian czar’s summer palace
in the Crimea. Yalta was the most important and by far the most controversial of
the wartime meetings. Recognizing the strong position that the Soviet Army
possessed on the ground, Churchill and an ailing Roosevelt agreed to a number of
compromises with Stalin that allowed Soviet hegemony to remain in Poland and
other Eastern European countries, granted territorial concessions to the Soviet
Union, and outlined punitive measures against Germany, including an occupation
and reparations in principle. Stalin did guarantee that the Soviet Union would
declare war on Japan within six months.
The last meeting of the “Big Three” occurred at Potsdam in July 1945, where the
tension that would erupt into the cold war was evident. Despite the end of the
war in Europe and the revelation of the existence of the atomic bomb to the
Allies, neither President Harry Truman, Roosevelt’s successor, nor Clement
Atlee, who mid-way through the conference replaced Churchill, could come to
agreement with Stalin on any but the most minor issues. The most significant
agreement was the issuance of the Potsdam Declaration to Japan demanding an
immediate and unconditional surrenderand threatening Japan with destruction if
they did not comply. With the Axis forces defeated, the wartime alliance soon
devolved into suspicion and bitterness on both sides.
