Teheran Conference

The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of the Allies of World War II, held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D.^¹ Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943.^¹ It was the first of the Allied World War II conferences involving the "Big Three" and took place at the Soviet embassy in Tehran more than two years after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.^¹ The meeting occurred shortly after the Cairo Conference was held in Egypt for a discussion between the United States, the United Kingdom, and China from 22 to 26 November 1943.^¹ The Big Three would not meet again until 1945, when the Yalta Conference was held in Crimea from 4 to 11 February and the Potsdam Conference was held in Allied-occupied Germany from 17 July to August 2.^¹ Notably, President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived on the USS Iowa.