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WWII Conferences Cut, match and paste the places, dates, decisions & leaders into your notebook. Places & Names The Decisions Yalta Conference After Germany’s defeat, the Allies continued to debate post-war plans for Germany and Poland ; Truman told Stalin that the US had an “powerful new weapon”, but did not tell him that it was an atomic bomb Atlantic Charter Potsdam Conference Casablanca Conference Cairo Conference Tehran Conference Dates November 1943 August 1941 July-August 1945 January 1943 November-December 1943 February 1945 Allies agreed that Germany would be divided and occupied after the war by the four major powers: US, UK, France and USSR; further discussions took place on the creation of the United Nations US & UK will seek the unconditional surrender of the Axis Powers, call upon the aid of the Soviet Union, and begin making plans to invade Sicily & Italy US, UK and China developed plans for defeating Japan, declared that Japan would be stripped of all conquered territories, and guaranteed the post-war independence of Korea In a secret meeting before the US had entered the war, the US & UK declare that they seek no territorial gains in war and that selfdetermination & freedom should be guaranteed to all people. Allied powers planned the opening of a “second front” in western Europe in the spring of 1944 and agreed to the creation of the United Nations; the Soviet Union agreed to join the war against Japan six months after the defeat of Germany. Winston Churchill (UK) Winston Churchill (UK) Winston Churchill (UK) Winston Churchill (UK) Franklin D. Roosevelt (US) Franklin D. Roosevelt (US) Winston Churchill & Clement Atlee (UK) Harry S. Truman (US) Charles DeGaulle (Fr.) Joseph Stalin (USSR) Joseph Stalin (USSR) Joseph Stalin (USSR) Franklin D. Roosevelt (US) Franklin D. Roosevelt (US) Chiang KaiShek (China) Winston Churchill (UK) Franklin D. Roosevelt (US) WWII Allied Conferences Name Date Attendees Significance Atlantic Charter Aug. 1941 Churchill, Roosevelt US-UK cooperation to defeat the Axis Powers Casablanca Conference Jan. 1943 Churchill, Roosevelt, DeGaulle Unconditional surrender; planned invasion of Italy Cairo Conference Nov. 1943 Churchill, Roosevelt, Chiang KaiShek Plans to defeat Japan Tehran Conference Dec. 1943 Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin Planned to squeeze Germany on three fronts, planned liberation of France Yalta Conference Feb. 1945 Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin Final war plans, post-war division of Germany, creation of UN, planned Soviet entry into war against Japan San Francisco Conference AprilJune 1945 50 nations Wrote the UN Charter Potsdam Conference JulyAug. 1945 Churchill/ Atlee, Stalin, Truman Unconditional surrender of Japan, German demilitarization, reparations, and war criminal prosecutions