This is a list of World War II conferences of the Allies 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 | Atlantic Charter | | Moscow Conference | Moscow, USSR | September 29 – October 1, 1941 | Stalin, Harriman, Beaverbrook | Allied aid to Russia | First Washington Conference
(ARCADIA) | Washington, D.C. | December 22, 1941 – January 14, 1942 | Churchill, Roosevelt | Europe first, Declaration by the 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 | | 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 | Plan Italian Campaign, increase air attacks on Germany, increase war in Pacific | Quebec Conference
(QUADRANT) | Quebec, Canada | August 17 – 24, 1943 | Churchill, Roosevelt, King | D-Day set for 1944, reorganization of 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 | 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, Inönü | 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), 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 | Delegates from 39 nations, Stettinius, Cadogan, Gromyko | Agreement to establish the United Nations | Second Quebec Conference
(OCTAGON) | Quebec, Canada | September 12 – 16, 1944 | Churchill, Roosevelt | Morgenthau Plan for postwar Germany, other war plans | 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 Russia'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 14 meetings, Roosevelt 12, Stalin 5. 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 | [edit] References [edit] Further reading |
