I. Wartime Conferences Prepare for Peace
a. U.S. took part in 15 major international conferences
b. Cairo-
November 1934- FDR, Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo, Egypt. Agreed on two issues: 1. Korea, then under Japanese domination, would be independent, and 2. Formosa, now Taiwan, would be returned by Japan to China.
c. Teheran-
In late Nov., FDR & Churchill proceeded to Teheran, Iran. Promised Stalin that a second front would soon be opened. Stalin in turn promised to attack Japan after Germany was defeated.
d. Yalta-
Yalta Conference- FDR's 2nd meeting with Stalin on the Black Sea
Big Three- reached tentative decisions about what to do with Germany after the war.
i. The Three leaders also agreed that German and Japanese leaders would be tried as criminals for the atrocities they had committed.
ii. The three set up the United Nations.
iii. Stalin, in exchange for Japan's Kuril and Sakhalin islands, again promised to enter the war with Japan 2......
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