This is a list of World War II conferences of the

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. Conference names in boldface indicate the conferences at which the leaders of the

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, the

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, and the

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were all present. For the historical context see Diplomatic history of World War II. In total Churchill attended 16.5 meetings, Roosevelt 12, and Stalin 7. For some of the major wartime conference meetings involving Roosevelt and later Truman, the

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s were words which included a numeric prefix corresponding to the ordinal number of the conference in the series of such conferences. The third conference was TRIDENT, the fourth conference was QUADRANT, the sixth conference was SEXTANT, and the eighth conference was OCTAGON. The last wartime conference was code-named TERMINAL. Image:Prince of Wales-5.jpg, Atlantic Conference, Argentia, Dominion of Newfoundland, 1941 Image:Franklin D. Roosevelt, Churchill, Giraud, and DeGaulle in Casablanca - NARA - 196990.jpg, Casablanca Conference, Casablanca, Morocco, 1943 Image:Quebec conference 1943.png, First Quebec Conference Quebec City, Canada, 1943 Image:Cairo conference.jpg, Cairo Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 1943 Image:Teheran conference-1943.jpg, Tehran Conference, Tehran, Iran, 1943 Image:Roosevelt Inonu Churchill.jpg, Second Cairo Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 1943 Image:Yalta Conference (Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin) (B&W).jpg, Yalta Conference, Yalta, USSR, 1945 Image:President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at Potsdam.jpg, Potsdam Conference, Potsdam, Germany, 1945

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