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Nov. 28, 1943 | Allied Leaders Meet at Tehran Conference

The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943. It was held in the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran and was the first of the World War II conferences held between all of the "Big Three" Allied leaders (the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom). It closely followed the Cairo Conference and preceded both the Yalta and Potsdam^] Conferences. Although all three of the leaders present arrived with differing objectives, the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the commitment to the opening of a second front against Nazi Germany by the Western Allies. The conference also addressed relations between the Allies and Turkey and Iran, operations in Yugoslavia and against Japan as well as the envisaged post-war settlement. A separate protocol signed at the conference pledged the Big Three's recognition of Iran's independence.

The "Big Three" at the Tehran Conference
Left to right: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.

Date	November 28, 1943 to December 1, 1943
Location	Soviet Embassy, Tehran, Iran
Also known as	Tehran Summit
Participants	Winston Churchill (Prime Minister: Great Britain), Franklin D. Roosevelt (President: United States) Joseph Stalin (Premier: Soviet Russia)
Outcome	Consensus to open a second front against Nazi Germany by 1 May 1944