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Casablanca Conference
The Casablanca Conference was a meeting held in Casablanca, Morocco in January 1943 during World War II. It was attended by the leaders of the Allied powers, including Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The conference focused on the next steps in the war effort, particularly the invasion of Sicily and the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers.
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eBook - ePub- Thomas W. Zeiler, Daniel M. DuBois(Authors)
- 2012(Publication Date)
- Wiley-Blackwell(Publisher)
One Christmas in Washington: The Secret Meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill that Changed the World , analyzed the critical but seriously understudied Arcadia Conference of December 1941–January 1942. Hilderbrand (1990), similarly in his Dumbarton Oaks: The Origins of the United Nations and the Search for Postwar Security , analyzed that 1944 meeting to plan for the postwar international organization, while Schild (1995) in Bretton Woods and Dumbarton Oaks: American Economic and Political Postwar Planning in the Summer of 1944 , analyzed both conferences with an emphasis on US intra and inter-departmental decision making. Dobson (1991, 2011) has filled another gap regarding the 1944 International Aviation Conference within his larger studies of Anglo-American conflict over international aviation. And Heiferman has recently published the first book-length study of the first Cairo Conference in The Cairo Conference of 1943: Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang , with a notable emphasis – as revealed in the subtitle – on Asia and the roles of the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang rather than just Churchill and Roosevelt (Heiferman 2011).Wilt (1991) analyzed the importance of the strategic decisions reached at the Casablanca Conference while Kimball devoted a chapter to that 1943 meeting within his larger work on Roosevelt as wartime statesman (Kimball 1991), but to date no book-length study has appeared on the conference. Nor have any appeared on the Churchill-Roosevelt meetings in Washington in June of 1942 and May of 1943 as well as Quebec in August of 1943 and September of 1944 (save for the previously cited Woolner collection of papers), or on either of the Churchill-Stalin meetings of 1942 and 1944 in Moscow. The second 1943 Cairo Conference probably cannot be analyzed separately from the first as well as the Tehran Conference, as the brief Churchill-Roosevelt meetings at Malta and Suez in 1945 cannot be treated apart from the Yalta Conference. But these other conferences between two rather than three of the Allied leaders still call for additional and detailed study. So does the 1943 Moscow Foreign Ministers Conference.
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