WWII CONFERENCES
Many conferences took place to settle the problems that WWII created. Use this
sheet to complete the fill-in assignment.
Location: CASABLANCA, FRENCH MOROCCO
Date: January, 1943
Main Participants: Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill
Major Decisions: Plans for invasion of Sicily.
Decision for cross-Channel invasion in 1944.
Stepped-up Battle of the Atlantic.
"Unconditional surrender " declaration by Roosevelt.
Location: TEHRAN , IRAN
Date: Nov.-Dec. 1943
Main Participants: Roosevelt, Churchill, Josef Stalin
Major Decisions: First meeting of the " Big Three. "
Agreement on date of invasion of Western Europe (D-DAY).
USSR agrees to Eastern Offensive at time of D-DAY.
USSR to enter war against Japan after Germany defeated.
Postwar division of Germany into occupation zones.
Initial discussions on structure of the United Nations.
Declaration on Iran.
Aid for Yugoslavia.
Location: YALTA , USSR
Date: February , 1945
Main Participants: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin
Major Decisions: Agreement on strategy for final phase of European War.
Declaration on Liberated Europe.
Discussion of structure of post-war Polish government and boundaries.
Secret agreement between FDR and Stalin about USSR's entry in war
against Japan.
USSR gets some Japanese territory.
Agreement on voting rights in United Nations and decision to call United
Nations Conference in San Francisco in April 1945.
Location: POTSDAM , GERMANY
Date: July-Aug. 1945
Main Participants: Harry Truman, Churchill, Stalin, Clement Attlee
Major Decisions: Potsdam Declaration calling for unconditional surrender of Japan.
The plan for occupation of post-war Japan.
Trial of Japanese war criminals.
Declaration also created Council of Foreign Ministers to formalize
European post-war peace terms.
Destruction of Nazism in Germany and the trial of Euro. war criminals.
Provided for reparations for the Soviet Union.
Formally recognized Poland's Warsaw government and western
boundaries.
PEOPLE:
1._____________, _______________Only attended Potsdam conference.
2._____________last conference was at Yalta. He died soon after.
3._____________only person to attend all four conferences.
4._____________along with Roosevelt, attended 3 conferences.
PLACES: (you may need to look at a map.)
5._____conferences were held in Asia.
6. “The Big 3” Attended____________and______________.
7._____ were held in Allied countries.
DATES: (years)
8. These 4 conferences were held in ________and________.
DECISIONS:
Which conference did the following occur?
9. Germany is broken up into occupation zones._______________
10. The United Nations is 1st discussed._______________
11. Japanese war criminals are discussed._____________
12. Russia agrees to join the war against Japan.______________
13. D-DAY is declared and planned.______________
14. Roosevelt 1st uses phrase “unconditional surrender.”_____________
15. Destroyed Nazism, and punished Nazi leaders.______________