List of Allied World War II conferences

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This is a list of World War II conferences of the Allies of World War II. Names in boldface indicate the three conferences at which the leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union were all present. For the historical context see Diplomatic history of World War II. See also the Anglo-French Supreme War Council, which operated from September 1939 until June 1940.

Name (CODE NAME)	City	Country	Dates	Major participants:	Major results
U.S.-British Staff Conference (ABC-1)	Washington, D.C.	United States	January 29 – March 27, 1941	American, British, and Canadian military staff	Set the basic planning agreement for the U.S. to enter the war.
First Inter-Allied Conference	London	United Kingdom	June 12, 1941	Representatives of Britain, 4 Dominions, Free France and 8 Allied governments in exile	Declaration of St James's Palace.^[1]
Atlantic Conference (RIVIERA)	Argentia	Newfoundland	August 9–12, 1941	Churchill and Roosevelt	Atlantic Charter; proposal for a Soviet aid conference.
Second Inter-Allied Conference	London	United Kingdom	September 24, 1941	Eden, Maisky, Cassin, and 8 Allied governments in exile	Adherence of all the Allies to the Atlantic Charter principles.^[2]^[3]
First Moscow Conference (CAVIAR)	Moscow	Soviet Union	September 29 – October 1, 1941	Stalin, Harriman, Beaverbrook, Molotov	Allied aid to the Soviet Union.
First Washington Conference (ARCADIA)	Washington, D.C.	United States	December 22, 1941 –January 14, 1942	Churchill, Roosevelt	Europe first, Declaration by United Nations.
Third Inter-Allied Conference	London	United Kingdom	January 13, 1942	8 exile govts: Poland (Sikorski), Belgium, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands, Norway, Yugoslavia, Free France, Luxembourg	Declaration Punishment for War Crimes, regarding Nazi atrocities against civilians.^[4]
Second Washington Conference (ARGONAUT)^{[ citation needed ]}	Washington, D.C.	United States	June 20 – 25, 1942	Churchill, Roosevelt	Make first priority opening a second front in North Africa, postpone cross-English Channel invasion.
Second Claridge Conference	London	United Kingdom	July 20 – 26, 1942	Churchill, Harry Hopkins	Substitute Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa, for US reinforcement of the Western Desert campaign.
Second Moscow Conference (BRACELET)	Moscow	Soviet Union	August 12 – 17, 1942	Churchill, Stalin, Harriman	Discuss reasons for Torch instead of cross-Channel invasion, Anglo-Soviet pact on information and technological exchanges.
Cherchell Conference	Cherchell	French Algeria	October 21 – 22, 1942	Clark, Vichy French officers including Mast	Clandestine conference before Torch, some Vichy French commanders agreed not to resist the Allied landings in Morocco and Algeria.^[5]
Casablanca Conference (SYMBOL)	Casablanca	French Morocco	January 14 – 24, 1943	Churchill, Roosevelt, de Gaulle, Giraud	Plan Italian Campaign, plan cross-Channel invasion in 1944, demand "unconditional surrender" by Axis, encourage unity of French authorities in London and Algiers.
Potenji River Conference	Natal	Brazil	January 28 – 29, 1943	Roosevelt, Vargas	Creation of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force
Adana Conference	Yenice	Turkey	January 30 – 31, 1943	Churchill, İnönü	Turkey's participation in the war.
Bermuda Conference	Hamilton	Bermuda	April 19 – 30, 1943	American and British delegations separately led by Harold W. Dodds and Richard Law	Jewish refugees freed by Allied forces and those still in Nazi-occupied Europe discussed. US immigration quotas not raised, UK prohibition on Jews seeking refuge in Mandatory Palestine not lifted.
Third Washington Conference (TRIDENT)	Washington, D.C.	United States	May 12 – 25, 1943	Churchill, Roosevelt, Marshall	Plan Italian Campaign, increase air attacks on Germany, increase war in Pacific.
Algiers Allied Planning Conference	Algiers	Algeria	May 29 – June 4, 1943	Churchill, Eden, Brooke, Tedder, Cunningham, Alexander, & Montgomery met with Marshall & Eisenhower	Finalize plan for Italian Campaign, increase air attacks on Germany, fix date for Operation HUSKY
First 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	Soviet Union	October 18 – November 11, 1943	Foreign ministers Hull, Eden, Molotov, Fu; and Stalin	Moscow Declaration.
Cairo Conference (SEXTANT)	Cairo	Kingdom of Egypt	November 23 – 26, 1943	Churchill, Roosevelt, Chiang	Cairo Declaration for postwar Asia.
Tehran Conference (EUREKA)	Tehran	Persia	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	Cairo	Kingdom of Egypt	December 4 – 6, 1943	Churchill, Roosevelt, İnönü	Agreement to complete Allied air bases in Turkey, postpone Operation Anakim against Japan in Burma.
British Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference	London	United Kingdom	May 1–16, 1944	Churchill, Curtin, Fraser, King, and Smuts	British Commonwealth leaders support Moscow Declaration and reach agreement regarding their respective roles in the overall Allied war effort.
Bretton Woods conference	Bretton Woods	United States	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.	United States	August 21 – 29, 1944	Cadogan, Gromyko, Stettinius, and Koo	Agreement to establish the United Nations.
Second Quebec Conference (OCTAGON)	Quebec City	Canada	September 12 – 16, 1944	Churchill, Roosevelt	Morgenthau Plan for postwar Germany, other war plans, Hyde Park Agreement.
Fourth Moscow Conference (TOLSTOY)	Moscow	Soviet Union	October 9 – 18, 1944	Churchill, Stalin, Molotov, Eden	Establishing post-war spheres of influence in Eastern Europe and Balkan peninsula.
Malta Conference (ARGONAUT and CRICKET)	Floriana	Crown Colony of Malta	January 30 – February 2, 1945	Churchill, Roosevelt	Preparation for Yalta.
Yalta Conference (ARGONAUT and MAGNETO)	Yalta	Soviet Union	February 4 – 11, 1945	Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin	Final plans for defeat of Germany, postwar Europe plans, set date for United Nations Conference, conditions for the Soviet Union's entry in war against Japan.
United Nations Conference on International Organization	San Francisco	United States	April 25 – June 26, 1945	Representatives of 50 nations	United Nations Charter.
Potsdam Conference (TERMINAL)	Potsdam	Allied-occupied Germany	July 17 – August 2, 1945	Stalin, Truman, Attlee, Churchill (in part, until election defeat of the Conservative Party)	Potsdam Declaration demanding unconditional surrender of Japan, Potsdam Agreement on policy for Germany.

In total Attlee attended 0.5 meetings, Churchill 16.5, de Gaulle 1, Roosevelt 12, Stalin 7, and Truman 1.

For some of the major wartime conference meetings involving Roosevelt and later Truman, the code names were words which included a numeric prefix corresponding to the ordinal number of the conference in the series of such conferences. The third conference was TRIDENT, the fourth conference was QUADRANT, the sixth conference was SEXTANT, and the eighth conference was OCTAGON. The last wartime conference was code-named TERMINAL.

Atlantic Conference, Argentia, Dominion of Newfoundland, 1941
Casablanca Conference, Casablanca, Morocco, 1943
Potenji River Conference, Natal, Brazil, 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

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v t e Diplomatic history of World War II
Conferences	U.S.–British Staff Conference (1941) First Inter-Allied Conference (1941) Atlantic Conference (1941) Second Inter-Allied Conference (1941) First Moscow Conference (1941) Arcadia Conference (1941– 1942) Third Inter-Allied Conference (1942) Second Washington Conference (1942) Second Moscow Conference (1942) Casablanca Conference (1943) Adana Conference (1943) Third Washington Conference (1943) First Quebec Conference (1943) Third Moscow Conference (1943) Cairo Conference (1943) Greater East Asia Conference (1943) Tehran Conference (1943) Second Cairo Conference (1943) Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference (1944) Bretton Woods Conference (1944) Dumbarton Oaks Conference (1944) Second Quebec Conference (1944) Fourth Moscow Conference (1944) Malta Conference (1945) Yalta Conference (1945) United Nations Conference on International Organization (1945) Potsdam Conference (1945)
Declarations and treaties	Munich Agreement (1938) Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1939) Pact of Steel (1939) Anglo-Thai Non-Aggression Pact (1940) Destroyers-for-bases deal (1940) Franco-Italian Armistice (1940) Moscow Peace Treaty (1940) Tripartite Pact (1940) Declaration of St James's Palace (1941) Anglo-Soviet Agreement (1941) Armistice of Saint Jean d'Acre (1941) Atlantic Charter (1941) German–Turkish Treaty of Friendship (1941) Paris Protocols (1941) Declaration by United Nations (1942) Punishment for War Crimes (1942) Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942 (1942) Armistice of Cassibile (1943) Cairo Declaration (1943) Moscow Declarations (1943) Declaration of the Four Nations Treaty between the United States and China for the Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights in China Sino-British Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extra-Territorial Rights in China (1943) Moscow Armistice (1944) Nuremberg Charter (1945) Potsdam Agreement (1945) Potsdam Declaration (1945) United Nations Charter (1945) Paris Peace Treaties (1947) Treaty of San Francisco (1951) Austrian State Treaty (1955) Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany (1990)
Organizations	Anglo-French Supreme War Council Sino-American Cooperative Organization European Advisory Commission Council of Foreign Ministers
Related	German Instrument of Surrender Japanese Instrument of Surrender

v t e Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States (1933–1945) 44th Governor of New York (1929–1932) Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913–1920) New York State Senator (1911–1913)
Presidency (timeline)	Transition Inaugurations (1st 2nd 3rd 4th) First and second terms Third and fourth terms Foreign policy New Deal overview New Deal coalition First 100 days Second New Deal Federal Emergency Relief Administration Civilian Conservation Corps Agricultural Adjustment Act Emergency Banking Act Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Tennessee Valley Authority National Labor Relations Act of 1935 National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 Public Works Administration National Recovery Administration Works Progress Administration National Youth Administration Social Security Act Aid to Families with Dependent Children Communications Act of 1934 Federal Communications Commission Securities and Exchange Commission Monetary gold ownership Gold Reserve Act Silver seizure Record on civil rights Defense industry non-discrimination Fair Employment Practice Committee Indian Reorganization Act Executive Orders 9066, 9102 War Relocation Authority Japanese American internment German-American internment Italian-American internment Brownlow Committee Executive Office of the President G.I. Bill of Rights Cullen–Harrison Act Roerich Pact Four Freedoms Four Freedoms Monument Black Cabinet Jefferson's Birthday holiday Jefferson Memorial Judicial Court-Packing Bill Cannabis policy Federal Judicial appointments Supreme Court Harlan F. Stone Supreme Court nomination Wiley Rutledge Supreme Court nomination Cabinet "Brain Trust" March of Dimes Modern Oval Office Official car Criticism Executive Orders Presidential Proclamations
Presidential foreign policy	Banana Wars U.S. occupation of Nicaragua, 1912–1933 U.S. occupation of Haiti, 1915–1934 Good Neighbor Policy (1933–1945) Montevideo Convention (1933) Second London Naval Treaty (1936) ABCD line (1940) Export Control Act Four Policemen Destroyers-for-bases deal Lend-Lease 1940 Selective Service Act Hull note Atlantic Charter (1941) Military history of the United States during World War II Home front during World War II Combined Munitions Assignments Board War Production Board Declaration by United Nations (1942) Dumbarton Oaks Conference World War II conferences Quebec Agreement Europe first Morgenthau Plan support
Presidential speeches	1932 Acceptance speech Commonwealth Club Address Madison Square Garden speech "Four Freedoms" Day of Infamy speech Arsenal of Democracy "...is fear itself" Fireside chats "Look to Norway" Quarantine Speech "The More Abundant Life" State of the Union Address (1934 1938 1939 1940 1941 (Four Freedoms) 1944 (Second Bill of Rights) 1945)
Other events	Early life, education, career Warm Springs Institute Governorship of New York Business Plot Assassination attempt
Elections	1928 New York state election 1930 Democratic National Convention, 1920 1924 1932 1936 1940 1944 1920 United States presidential election 1932 theme song 1936 1940 1944
Life and homes	Early life and education Groton School Springwood birthplace, home, and gravesite Adams House FDR Suite Campobello home Paralytic illness Top Cottage Little White House, Warm Springs, Georgia
Legacy	Bibliography Statues Presidential Library and Museum Roosevelt Institute Roosevelt Institute Campus Network Franklin Delano Roosevelt Foundation Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Roosevelt Island Four Freedoms Park White House Roosevelt Room Roosevelt Institute for American Studies USS Franklin D. Roosevelt USS Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award Four Freedoms paintings Unfinished portrait U.S. Postage stamps Roosevelt dime I'd Rather Be Right 1937 musical Films The Roosevelt Story 1947 Sunrise at Campobello 1960 Eleanor and Franklin 1976, The White House Years 1977 Backstairs at the White House 1979 miniseries World War II: When Lions Roared 1997 miniseries Warm Springs 2005 Hyde Park on Hudson 2012 The Roosevelts 2014 documentary The First Lady 2022 miniseries FDR 2023 miniseries Other namesakes
Family (Roosevelt • Delano)	Eleanor Roosevelt (wife) Anna Roosevelt Halsted (daughter) James Roosevelt II (son) Elliott Roosevelt (son) Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (son) John Aspinwall Roosevelt II (son) James Roosevelt I (father) Sara Ann Delano (mother) James Roosevelt Roosevelt (half-brother) Isaac Roosevelt (grandfather) Warren Delano Jr. (grandfather) Fala (family dog) Major (family dog)
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