Political Unity

Narrator's post:

The Tehran Conference of 1943, where all three met for the first time was significant for several reasons. Though cooperation between all three powers had begun earlier with moments such as the provision of Lend- Lease Aid to Britain and the Soviet Union by the US, meetings between Churchill and Stalin in July 1941 where Churchill agreed to Stalin’s request to take the pressure off Russia by promising to bomb Germany, and the first meeting between both Churchill and Roosevelt in 1941 to discuss the war, Tehran was crucial as the three leaders agreed on the placing aside of their differences in political views and ideology, and focus instead on one common alignment of aims: the defeat and destruction of the Axis powers. No doubt other factors such as American industrial might was crucial, the channeling of such material into Russian and British hands in order to sustain them through crucial periods of the early stages of the War, where the Axis powers continued to advance, were the “fruits” of such meetings throughout the course of the war. These constituted the frameworks and basis of cooperation and discussion between all three sides, past Tehran, till the end and destruction of the Axis powers were confirmed in both Europe and the Pacific.