Tehran Conference
테헤란 회담
The first face-to-face meeting of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill, held at the Soviet embassy in Tehran from 28 November to 1 December 1943. Its most urgent outcome was the British-American commitment to open a second front in northern France by May 1944, a goal the Soviets had pressed for since 1941 to relieve the Eastern Front. The conference also broached the postwar partition of Germany, Poland's borders, and the design of the United Nations, but its gravitational center remained military survival. Set against the Yalta Conference of 1945, where the Big Three turned to dividing the spoils of victory, Tehran was still a meeting of allies fighting to win.
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- Wikipedia (RU) Russian Wikipedia: full account of the conference, including preparations, the second-front debate, Operation Overlord commitment, German and Polish questions, and the NKVD role in the assassination plot
- Wikipedia (EN) English Wikipedia: comprehensive overview including codename Eureka, military decisions, political decisions, and the alleged German assassination plot
- history.state.gov Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State: authoritative summary of the conference's military and political outcomes, including the second-front decision, Poland's borders, and UN discussions
- history.navy.mil Naval History and Heritage Command: U.S. Navy museum summary confirming the conference as the first Big Three meeting and its key outcomes