The Tehran conference

• When was the Tehran Conference held ?

  1943
• The Big Three (Britain, USA, USSR) didn’t meet until the Tehran Conference in Persia, November 1943
• Objectives: to discuss the planned invasion of Nazi occupied France
• Outcomes: the USA and Britain would invade France by May 1944

  and the USSR would join the USA and Britain in the war against Japan, once Nazi Germany was defeated
• One consequence of the Tehran conference was the disagreement over Germany’s future
• What did Roosevelt believe should happen to Germany‘s future ?

  Germany should be rebuilt to avoid economic disaster
• What did Churchill believe should happen to Germany’s future?

  Germany should be rebuilt to avoid economic disaster
• What did Stalin believe should happen to Germany’s future?

  Germany should be punished by being forced to pay reparation and give up territory
• The allies agreed to split Europe into two ‘spheres of influence’
• The west of Europe was The US and UK’s capitalist side
• The east of Europe was Stalin’s side, where communism would be respected and not threatened by neighbouring countries
• The British and Americans finally committed to launching ‘Operation Overlord‘, an invasion of northern France carried out but May of 1944
• what led to the UN being set up ?

  The Big Three agreeing to set up an international body at the Tehran conference
• what did the USSR agree to do at the Tehran conference ?

  go to war with Japan once Nazi Germany was defeated
• What did the USA and Britain agree to do at the Tehran conference ?


  They agreed to open up a second front and invade Nazi-occupied Europe
• Poland boundaries moved westwards, gaining territory from Germany and losing it to the Soviet Union
• Who was the prime minister for Britain ?

  churchill
• who was the president of the USA

  roosevelt
• who was the USSR led by ?

  stalin