Cairo Conference
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Cairo Conference

World War II [1943]
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Last Updated: Article History
Date:
November 22, 1943 - November 26, 1943 December 2, 1943 - December 7, 1943
Location:
Cairo Egypt
Key People:
Chiang Kai-shek Winston Churchill Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Cairo Conference, (November–December 1943), either of two meetings of Allied leaders held in Cairo during World War II. At the first Cairo Conference (November 22–26), British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt discussed plans for the prosecution of the Normandy Invasion. With Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek, they issued a declaration of the goal of stripping Japan of all the territories it had seized since 1914 and restoring Korea to independence. Upon conclusion of the first Cairo Conference, Churchill and Roosevelt flew to Iran for the Tehrān Conference with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. The two Western leaders ...(100 of 169 words)

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