14th January 1943: Churchill and Roosevelt meet at the Casablanca Conference

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14th January 1943: Churchill and Roosevelt meet at the Casablanca Conference

14th January 2018
Tagged as: Allies, Axis Alliance, Britain, Churchill, Conference, France, Morocco, Roosevelt, Stalin, USA, USSR

On the 14^th January 1943, the Casablanca Conference began in Morocco.

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7th December 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor

7th December 2017
Tagged as: America, China, Japan, Military, Oil, Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt, Second World War, USA

At 7:48 on the morning of the 7^th December 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack against the United States’ Hawaiian naval base at Pearl Harbor.

Einstein, who was Jewish, was undertaking a visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January 1933.

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4th February 1945: Yalta Conference between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin begins

4th February 2017
Tagged as: Britain, Churchill, Diplomacy, Germany, International Relations, Poland, Roosevelt, Second World War, Stalin, USA, USSR

Attended by the “Big Three” Allied leaders, the conference saw United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet to discuss the government of post-war Europe.

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1st January 1942: Declaration by the United Nations agreed

1st January 2017
Tagged as: Allies, Britain, China, Churchill, Roosevelt, Second World War, United Nations, USA, USSR

On the 1^st January 1942, the Declaration by the United Nations was agreed and signed by the representatives of four major Allied nations during the Second World War.