Cairo Conferences

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The Cairo Conferences were two meetings of Allied leaders during World War II. The first, held in November 1943, involved British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek. They planned the Normandy Invasion and issued a declaration aiming to strip Japan of territories seized since 1914 and restore Korea's independence.1

Following this, Churchill and Roosevelt met with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in Tehran. They then returned to Cairo for a second conference in December 1943. Here, they unsuccessfully attempted to persuade Turkey's President İsmet İnönü to join the Allied powers. President Roosevelt also informed Churchill of his selection of Dwight D. Eisenhower as the supreme commander for the Normandy Invasion.1

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