This is a list of World War II conferences of the

Allies of World War II The Allies, formally referred to as the Declaration by United Nations, United Nations from 1942, were an international Coalition#Military, military coalition formed during the World War II, Second World War (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis ...

. 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 The diplomatic history of World War II includes the major foreign policies and interactions inside the opposing coalitions, the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers, between 1939 and 1945. High-level diplomacy began as soon as the war start ...

. 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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