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What was the Casablanca Conference of 1943?

In January 1943, Roosevelt and Churchill met in Casablanca and wrote the terms of the war’s ending — nothing less than unconditional surrender.

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In January 1943, in Casablanca’s quiet Anfa suburb, the leaders of the free world sat down and decided how the Second World War would end — before the ending was in sight. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill gave the war its terms: nothing less than the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers.

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