Big Three, Tehran, Iran

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt, and British prime minister Winston Churchill, seated left to right, met in Tehran in Iran in 1943 to discuss their military strategy and post-World War II policy for Europe. The leaders decided to invade France in 1944, against Churchill’s recommendations. The meeting marked the apex of the East-West wartime alliance. Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill, the leaders of the three major Allied powers, came to be known as the “Big Three”.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; World War II; Tehran Conference; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer; United Nations; Stalin, Joseph

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