The Second Front
Churchill & Roosevelt - 18 through 25 June 1942 (Washington) - The Second Front & The Atomic Bomb
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The Big Three at Yalta
hurchill & Stalin - 12 through 15 August 1942 (Moscow) - The Second Front and Torch
Stalin's Paranoia
Churchill and the balance of Power
1943 - The War
Casablanca - 14 through 25 January 1943 - Churchill & Roosevelt
Cairo - 22 through 26 November 1943 - Roosevelt, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek
Tehran - 28 November through 1 December 1943 - Roosevelt, Stalin & Churchill
Cairo - 3 through 6 December 1943 - Roosevelt & Churchill
1944/45 - The War & The Peace
Bretton Woods - 1 through 22 July 1944
The Bretton Woods agreements of July 1944, which established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, had marked the first major attempt by the United States to restructure the world economy. The concept of "economic security"-interdependence serving U.S. security-was a driving force behind wartime planning. A State Department memorandum of February 1944 on U.S. commercial policies, for instance, argued that, without an agreement liberalizing trade, the postwar period would "witness a revival, in more intense from, of internal economic warfare which characterized the twenties and thirties." Freer trade served U.S. strategic objectives:…20
Quebec - 11 through 19 September 1944 - Roosevelt & Churchill
Hyde Park - September 18, 1944 - The Atomic Bomb
Moscow - 9 through 20 October 1944 - Churchill & Stalin
Yalta - 4 through 11 February 1945 - - Roosevelt, Stalin & Churchill
The Nature of the Agreement - Poland, Liberated Europe, Germany, the Far East, and the United
Nations. - The attempt to address the security needs of the Soviet Union, create a balance of power, establish a workable international system.
Roosevelt’s Domestic Issues
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The Big Three at Potsdam
n his dealings with the Kremlin, however, Roosevelt felt it imperative to cloak his concessions in the ambiguous language of the Declaration on Liberated Europe. In this way he hoped to satisfy Stalin without disappointing domestic constituencies whose support he still needed for many legislative enactments, including American participation in the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. Paradoxically, then, Roosevelt’s carefully concealed concessions were prompted by a desire to cooperate with the Kremlin, by a recognition of Soviet preponderance in Eastern Europe, and by a desire to ensure active American participation in world affairs, which, if necessary, could take the direction of the containment of Soviet power.21
1945 - The Post-War World (Roosevelt's Death - April 12, 1945) Potsdam - 17 July through 2 August 1945 – Truman, Churchill (Atlee – Replaces Churchill during the Summit) & Stalin
Going to Potsdam, Stalin had two ideas in mind: a new war should be prevented, and the Soviet Union should get its rightful share of the spheres of influence, that is, the outer belt of security. The United States and Great Britain had to pay for the enormous Soviet war effort.
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