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On Nov. 28, 1943, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt joined British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at a conference in Iran to discuss strategies for winning World War II and potential terms for a peace settlement. Tehran was chosen as the site for the talks largely due to its strategic importance to the Allies – the U.S. was able to get supplies to the Soviets through Iran when Germany controlled most of Europe and North Africa, and German U-boats were attacking Allied shipping. The “Big Three,” as the leaders were known, discussed ways to defeat Nazi Germany and agreed upon an invasion of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord, which was launched in June 1944. In return for America’s help in defeating Germany on the eastern front, Stalin promised to help the U.S. win its war against Japan. The meeting was so friendly that Churchill later expressed unease at Roosevelt’s extraordinary effort to charm and accommodate Stalin.
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