Tehran Conference

• What was the Tehran Conference?

  The first of three strategic meetings between the USA, Britain and the Soviet Union to discuss Nazi Germany and how to end the war.
• When was the Tehran conference held?

  November to December, 1943.
• What decisions were made at the conference?

  • It was decided the USA and Britain would open a second front by invading Europe through Nazi-occupied France.
  • The USSR would invade Nazi Germany from the east.
  • The USSR would invade Japan once Nazi Germany was defeated.
  • The Polish border would be moved to the west, so Poland would gain territory from Germany and lose it to the USSR from the east.
  • An organisation would be created to settle international disagreements once the war was over. This would eventually become the United Nations.
• What were the signs of tension at the conference?

  • Churchill wanted the second front to be opened up in the Balkans, not in France.
  • Roosevelt viewed Britain's colonialism as a greater threat than communism.