The Tehran Conference

• The Tehran Conference was held

  28 Nov-1 December 1943
• The leaders were in a confident mood and made it clear they had one aim, the destruction and defeat of Germany and Japan
• There would be a new League of Nations as soon as the war ended
• The big 3

  American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Russian leader Joseph Stalin
• The Tehran Conference
• The UK and USA should have a sphere of influence in Western Europe in which capitalism would be dominant
• The leaders couldn't agree on what to do with Germany

  Stalin argued that Germany should be forced to pay reparations whilst Roosevelt and Churchill argued that Germany should be rebuilt
• First time the three leaders had met
• Russia's Red Army had just begun to push the Germans back after the Battle of Stalingrad
• The leaders needed to decide on how to rebuild Europe
• A new world peace organisation to replace the League of Nations would be established
• The USSR should have a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe in which communism would be respected