Tehran Conference
strategy meeting of the leaders of the USSR, the USA, and the UK in Tehran in 1943 during World War 2
The Tehran Conference (codenamed Eureka[1]) was a meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943. It was held at the Soviet Union's embassy at Tehran in Iran. It was the first of the World War II conferences of the "Big Three" Allied leaders (the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom).
| Tehran Conference "Eureka" | |
|---|---|
 Left-to-right: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, American president Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill | |
| Host country |  Allied-occupied Iran |
| Date | 28 November – 1 December 1943 |
| Venue(s) | Embassy of the Soviet Union |
| Cities | Tehran, Iran |
| Participants |  Soviet Union United States United Kingdom |
| Precedes | Yalta Conference |
| Key points | |
Consensus to open a second front against Nazi Germany by 1 June 1944 | |
The main result of the Tehran Conference was the Western Allies' commitment to open a second front against Nazi Germany. The conference also addressed the Big Three Allies' relations with Turkey and Iran, operations in Yugoslavia and against Japan.
References
change- ↑ Churchill, Winston Spencer (1951). The Second World War: Closing the Ring. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. p. 642.
